A Reconfigurable Wearable Antenna for Mid Band 5G Applications

Abstract

Soon, everything should be connected by 5G wireless, including wearable devices that are booming fast recently. Wearable antennas are becoming increasingly common in consumer electronics. To achieve 5G, wearable devices should support much wide band width and high rate of data with better consistency. In this paper a reconfigurable wearable antenna is implemented on a fabric substrate. The proposed antenna may fit for reconfiguration of the frequency to work on MID band (3 - 5.5GHz) of 5G. The proposed antenna can be a part of military uniform or any other garment and can be employed in Wi-Fi, WLAN, Satellite,5G mobile and cognitive radio communication. The shape of the antenna has been accomplished by placing each feature of reconfiguration mentioned above in the same antenna and performing the parametric analysis to obtain an optimal prototype that could allow the achievement of good results with fabric such as polyester as substrate.