Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2006
Session Number:2B2b
Session:
Number:2B2b-4
On Millimetre-Wave Propagation Characterisation for Human Bodies at 62.4GHz
Charles S. C. Leong, Jurgen Richter, Andrew R. Nix1,
pp.1-5
Publication Date:2006/11/2
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
The IEEE has recently formed the 802.15.3c task group (TG3c) to prepare new standards for millimetre-wave wireless personal area networks (WPAN). Channel modelling is one of their main activities. This paper contains detailed measurement results and analysis on the effects of human body interactions in the 60 GHz band. A number of volunteers with body weights ranging from 65 to 110 kg were used to study the effects of human body shadowing in an anechoic chamber. Previously, a number of papers had reported averaged attenuation values for the human body at these frequencies, but none contained detailed measurements performed within an anechoic chamber. The measured data can be used to simulate the effects of various human densities using a 3D ray tracing model. These measurements aid the development of next generation WPAN devices, especially in the worldwide unlicensed 60 GHz band.