A printed toothbrush-shaped antenna is proposed for millimeter wave communication. The designed antenna features with a compact size is 7 × 10 mm 2 , and satisfies the VSWR requirement less than 2.0 in the frequency band from 32 GHz to more than 38 GHz. Simulated and measured results for main parameters such as return loss, impedance bandwidth, and radiation patterns are also discussed herein. The study shows that modeling of such antennas, with simplicity in designing and feeding, can well meet millimeter-wave wireless communication.

WirelessHART is the most widely applied standard in wireless sensor networks nowadays. However, it does not provide any dynamic routing mechanism, which is important for the reliability and robustness of the wireless network applications. In this paper, a collection tree protocol based, dynamic routing mechanism was proposed for WirelessHART network. The dynamic routing mechanism was evaluated through several simulation experiments in three aspects: time for generating the topology, link quality, and stability of network. Besides, the data transmission efficiency of this routing mechanism was analyzed. The simulation and evaluation results show that this mechanism can act as a dynamic routing mechanism for the TDMA-based wireless sensor network.