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URSI Commission B 2013 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory EMTS 2013

2013

Session Number:24PM2F

Session:

Number:24PM2F-02

Impact of the Human Walking Motion on BAN Diversity Effects

Kazuhiro Honda,  Kun Li,  Koichi Ogawa,  

pp.1136-1139

Publication Date:2013/5/20

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.30.24PM2F-02

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Summary:
This paper presents analytical results on the BER degradation of QPSK signals for BAN diversity antennas for the case where the combined outcome of shadowing and multipath fading emerge simultaneously and statistical model of human walking motion is employed in the analysis. The results show that a probability of a low signal level is higher than that for the Rayleigh distribution owing to shadowing caused by the movement of the arms, resulting in the significant impact on the BER performance of body-attached BAN devices. The antenna separation greater than 80 deg. is required for reducing the shadowing effects.