A statistical characterization of shadowed fading in indoor off-body communications channels at 5.8 GHz

Author

Seong Ki Yoo ; Cotton, Simon L.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Commun. & Inf. Technol., Queen´s Univ. Belfast, Belfast, UK

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper investigates the characteristics of the shadowed fading observed in off-body communications channels at 5.8 GHz using the κ-μ / gamma composite fading model. Realistic measurements have been conducted considering four individual scenarios namely line of sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) walking, rotation and random movements within an indoor laboratory environment. It is shown that the κ-μ / gamma composite fading model provides a better fit to the fading observed in off-body communications channels compared to the conventional Nakagami-m and Rician fading models.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; Rician channels; indoor radio; mobility management (mobile radio); statistical analysis; NLOS walking; Nakagami-m fading models; Rician fading models; frequency 5.8 GHz; gamma composite fading model; indoor laboratory environment; indoor off-body communications channels; nonLOS walking; shadowed fading; statistical characterization; Communication channels; Fading; Legged locomotion; Mathematical model; Probability density function; Shadow mapping; Transmitters; κ-μ / gamma composite fading model; body shadowing; off-body communications channels; shadowed fading model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228906