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international standard regulations, current performance and limitations of nano-scale
CMOS technology, and integrated circuits designs, as well as the performance of
wearable antenna designs.
From the preliminary feasibility analyses reported herein it is possible to derive
that the performance available at the state of the art for CMOS millimeter-wave
wireless transceivers and millimeter-wave wearable antennas may offer concrete
opportunities to realize wireless body-centric networks by exploiting the 60-GHz fre-
quency band. However, the results of these preliminary considerations on feasibility
should be revised in the light of the on-field experimental validations and observa-
tions in presence of shadowing, body loss, and other nonidealities, which may have
a significant impact on the operation of the wireless body-centric communications.
Acknowledgement This work was supported in part by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and
in part by Irish Research Council (IRC).
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