@inbook{557e6639925d4db580bedb6ac10b7ae8,
title = "Characterisation of body-shadowing effects in the indoor environment at 5.2 GHz",
abstract = "Human body shadowing effects can considerably influence the channel characteristics of indoor radio communication systems. In this work, body-shadowing effects were measured for a line-of-sight (LOS) point-to-point 5.2 GHz link with up to 3 pedestrians moving within a 42 m2 room. The results show that received power values are significantly dependent on whether or not the user's body obstructed the direct ray to the transmitter. Under obstructed conditions, the measured body shadowing effect was an attenuation of up to 10 dB. The first order statistics for the experimental scenarios tend to be Rice distributed with the K factor decreasing as the number of pedestrians present increased.",
keywords = "Antenna measurements, Dipole antennas, Floors, Indoor environments, Narrowband, Polarization, Power measurement, Shadow mapping, Transmitters, Transmitting antennas",
author = "Ziri-Castro, \{K. I.\} and Scanlon, \{W. G.\} and Evans, \{N. E.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2003 IEEE.; 2003 High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium ; Conference date: 08-09-2003 Through 09-09-2003",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1109/HFPSC.2003.1242293",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2--5",
booktitle = "2003 High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium",
address = "United States",
}