A Statistical Model for On-Body Channels in Indoor Considering Rooms Geometry and Subject Location

The influence of the surrounding environment on the characteristics of the on-body channel for three radio links of Wireless Body Area Networks is considered in this article. A comprehensive measurement campaign was driven in various rooms focussing on the influence of rooms geometry on the Path Loss, the on-body shadowing and the small scale fading. Simple quantitative models depending on a single parameter representing rooms geometry are proposed.