A statistical analysis of the influence of the human body on the radiation pattern of wearable antennas

This paper introduces a statistical approach for modelling antennas behaviour in the vicinity of the human body. The statistics of radiation patterns, i.e., average and standard deviation, have been calculated for Uniform and Rayleigh antenna to body distance distributions. The coupling between the body and the antenna and reduction of antenna efficiency leads to the distortion of the antenna radiation pattern, which depends on the distance as well as on the location on the body. A patch antenna operating at 2.45 GHz was simulated in CST, near to regions of a voxel human model, i.e., Head, Chest, Arm and Leg. Results show that the relative change of the average radiation pattern for an antenna located on the Chest can reach 24%.