Workshop Program

With the recent advances of microwave technology, application of microwave to medicine attracts attention. In this workshop, the following three topics are highlighted;
(i) thermal therapy, (ii) diagnosis technique based on microwave imaging, and (iii) wireless communications in medicine.
In these three talks, the speakers emphasized measured and computational techniques needed for further improvement of each system, together with the recent trend in the corresponding areas.

Keyword ： Hyperthermia, Microwave Imaging, Wireless Body Area Network, Phantoms, Realistic Human Body Models

Smart sensing system with WPAN is considered to be one of the future infrastructures of social security. Autonomous sensor node is necessary and the ultra low-power communication protocol such as ZigBee has been proposed for last decade. However, the system utilization has been limited in some specific industry area and there are still some issues in order to expand the application spaces.
In this workshop, recent achievements will be demonstrate for wireless device, sensor node, networking and application technology, respectively.

Keyword ： Smart Sensor, Sensor Network, WPAN, Autonomous Sensor

Development of artificial metamaterials composed of an array of subwavelength constituents that exhibit unusual electromagnetic properties is being accelerated.
This workshop will focus on recent progress of metamaterials such as cloaks of invisibility based on transformation electromagnetics, non-reciprocal metamaterials, antennas and other radiative applications.

Keyword ： Transformation Electromagnetics, Metamaterials, Non-Reciprocal Metamaterials, Metamaterial Antennas

Continuous technology improvements are required for realizing further high speed and large capacity systems in mobile radio communications.
This workshop consists of the following three topics.
The first paper introduces BWA related technologies for the success of mobile WiMAX system. The second and third papers introduce cellular system rerated technologies for ultra high speed and large capacity radio access network utilization and those for improving cell boundary transmission speed, respectively. Each of the papers will also present the newest results.

Keyword ： Mobile Communication, High Speed, WiMAX, 4th Generation Cellular System

Graphics processing unit（ GPU）, which enables massively parallel computation, has large influence on the field of numerical simulation. Application of GPU for acceleration of computation in electromagnetic field simulation based on the Method of Moments and FDTD method will be presented.

Keyword ： Graphics Processing Unit(GPU), Electromagnetic Simulation, Acceleration, Method of Moments, FDTD

Electromagnetic (EM) simulators are necessary nowadays for simulation of high frequency circuits. Last year, canonical problems (conductor/dielectric sphere, dipole antenna, patch antenna, waveguide slot antenna, standard gain horn antenna, on-chip spiral inductor and on-chip capacitor) were prepared and tips to solve those problems using EM simulators were discussed.
This year, accuracy and speed of simulation will be discussed using some of canonical problems.

Keyword ： Electromagnetic Simulator, Canonical Problem, Accuracy