Characterization of the On-Body Channel in an Outdoor Environment at 2.45 GHz
Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EuCAP 2009
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Cotton, Simon L.; Scanlon, William G. (School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, BT3 9DT, UK)
Abstract:
A characterization of the fading observed in an 8-node wireless body area network in an outdoor environment is presented. When the user was stationary the degree of fading for on-body links was found to be low, with estimated Nakagami m parameters >> 1. However, when the user was mobile, depending on the body dynamics in the vicinity of the node location and transmission path length, fading significantly increased, characterized by lower m values. Level crossing rates are also presented and used to estimate the maximum Doppler frequency for each individual on-body channel.