TY - CHAP
T1 - Statistical characterisation for a mobile bodyworn personal area network in an indoor multipath environment at 868 MHz
AU - Cotton, Simon L.
AU - Scanlon, William G.
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - The narrowband fading experienced by a mobile wireless personal area network was analyzed using first and second order statistics. Line of sight (LOS) and non-LOS conditions were considered for three indoor environments: anechoic chamber, open office area and hallway. Parameter estimates for the Nakagami-m, Rice and Rayleigh distributions were obtained using maximum likelihood estimation and competing models were indexed using the Akaike Information Criterion. Overall, the Nakagami-m cdf best described fading for bodyworn operation with 60% of measured channels following this distribution. Multipath fading played an important role in channel statistics with the maximum recorded m value for a bodyworn receiver being reduced from m = 24.0 (back right position) in NLOS anechoic conditions to m = 0.98 for LOS in the open office area. The coherence time, obtained using second order statistics, was greater for multipath environments compared to anechoic conditions.
AB - The narrowband fading experienced by a mobile wireless personal area network was analyzed using first and second order statistics. Line of sight (LOS) and non-LOS conditions were considered for three indoor environments: anechoic chamber, open office area and hallway. Parameter estimates for the Nakagami-m, Rice and Rayleigh distributions were obtained using maximum likelihood estimation and competing models were indexed using the Akaike Information Criterion. Overall, the Nakagami-m cdf best described fading for bodyworn operation with 60% of measured channels following this distribution. Multipath fading played an important role in channel statistics with the maximum recorded m value for a bodyworn receiver being reduced from m = 24.0 (back right position) in NLOS anechoic conditions to m = 0.98 for LOS in the open office area. The coherence time, obtained using second order statistics, was greater for multipath environments compared to anechoic conditions.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33847413102
U2 - 10.1109/eucap.2006.4584833
DO - 10.1109/eucap.2006.4584833
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:33847413102
SN - 9290929375
SN - 9789290929376
T3 - European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
BT - Proceedings of The European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
PB - European Space Agency
T2 - European Conference on Antennas and Propagation: EuCAP 2006
Y2 - 6 November 2006 through 10 November 2006
ER -