Shadowed fading in body-to-body communications channels in an outdoor environment at 2.45 GHz

In this paper a number of outdoor body-to-body communication channels at 2.45 GHz which are deemed to be susceptible to shadowed fading are analyzed. The newly proposed shadowed κ-μ model is used to characterize these channels. Its probability density function is shown to provide an improved fit to the distribution of the signal fading compared to established models such as lognormal, Nakagami and Rice.