An experimental study on the impact of human body shadowing in off-body communications channels at 2.45 GHz

Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3133-3137

  Cotton, S L ^a   McKernan, A ^a   Ali, A J ^a   Scanlon, W G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHADOWING; DIRECT SIGNAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HUMAN BODIES; LINE OF SIGHT; MULTI-PATH; NONLINE OF SIGHT; OFF-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; PATCH ANTENNA; PATH LOSS; PATH LOSS MODELS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SIGNAL VARIATIONS; SMALL-SCALE FADING; STATISTICAL APPROACH; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER;

FADING CHANNELS; TRANSCEIVERS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79959634698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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