The effects of the human body on UWB signal propagation in an indoor environment

Thad B. Welch; Randall L. Musselman; Bomono A. Emessiene; Phillip D. Gift; Daniel K. Choudhury; Derek N. Cassadine; Scott M. Yano

doi:10.1109/JSAC.2002.805243

The effects of the human body on UWB signal propagation in an indoor environment

Thad B. Welch
, Randall L. Musselman
, Bomono A. Emessiene
, Phillip D. Gift
, Daniel K. Choudhury
, Derek N. Cassadine
, Scott M. Yano

Electrical Engineering Department

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Abstract

Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems are investigated for their ability to operate in dense multipath environments. While a great deal of time and effort has been spent characterizing both the indoor and outdoor UWB channels, the effects of human body interaction with a close proximity UWB antenna remains unexplored. Measurements of a commercially available UWB antenna performance in an anechoic chamber and in various indoor multipath environments were conducted. Comparisons of these measurement results indicate that while the human body creates a deep null (23.6 dB) in a light multipath environment, this null is drastically reduced (6.8 dB) in a dense multipath environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1778-1782
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume	20
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2002.805243
State	Published - Dec 2002

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Antenna proximity factors
Fading channels
Radio propagation

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