Title :
Multipath fading of on-body propagation channels
Author :
Nechayev, Yuriy I. ; Hall, Peter S.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham
Abstract :
It was shown that multipath fading of an on-body channel can be characterized by a Rician distribution. The parameters of the Rican distribution for two on-body channels were extracted and their behavior during walking movement in an office and in an anechoic chamber was analyzed. It was shown that three independent parameters can be used to characterize the channel fading. Two of them can be obtained from rigorous electromagnetic modeling of the body alone, and the third from an indoor propagation model without the body.
Keywords :
Rician channels; electromagnetic wave propagation; feature extraction; multipath channels; Rician distribution; anechoic chamber; channel fading; indoor propagation model; multipath fading; on-body propagation channels; rigorous electromagnetic modeling; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Fading; Legged locomotion; Light scattering; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical propagation; Rician channels; Transmitting antennas; Wrist;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2041-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2042-1
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2008.4619697
