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Fast Fading Characterization for Body Area Networks in Circular Metallic Indoor Environments

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With the increasing development of 5G and Body Area Network based systems being implemented in unusual environments, propagation inside metallic structures is a key aspect to characterize propagation effects inside ships and other similar environments, mostly composed of metallic walls. In this paper, indoor propagation inside circular metallic structures is addressed and fast fading statistical distributions parameters are obtained from simulation, being assessed with measurements at 2.45 GHz in a passenger ferry discotheque with an 8 m diameter circular shape. It is observed that, in this kind of environments, second order reflections are particularly relevant due to the walls’ high reflective nature. Globally, it is concluded that the Rayleigh distribution can be used to characterize fast fading effects with no significant loss of accuracy compared to the Rice one, since a low value of the Rice parameter is observed, being below 3.1 dB, even under Line-of-Sight conditions. Moreover, it is observed that, from the fast fading viewpoint, the best transmitter position is at the circle center.

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IEEE Access no. 8, pages 43817 - 43825,
ISSN: 2169-3536
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English
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2020
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Cardoso F., Kosz P., Ferreira M., Ambroziak S., Correia L.: Fast Fading Characterization for Body Area Networks in Circular Metallic Indoor Environments// IEEE Access -Vol. 8, (2020), s.43817-43825
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Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1109/access.2020.2977425
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  27. FILIPE D. CARDOSO (Member, IEEE) received the Licenciado, M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the IST/Technical University of Lisbon. Since 1994, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, ESTSetúbal/Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal, where he is currently a Tenured Professor in telecommunications and also the Head of the Electronics and Telecommunications area. He is a Researcher with INESC-ID, Lisbon. His research interest includes wireless/mobile channel characterization and modeling and future mobile broadband systems. He was or is involved in European projects and networks of excellence COST 273, IST/FLOWS, ICT/4WARD, ICT/EARTH, ICT/LEXNET, NEWCOM, and NEWCOM++. He was the Task Leader of Energy Efficiency in Transmission Tech- niques (EARTH) and Dissemination and Standardization (LEXNET) work- groups. He has authored papers in national and international conferences and journals, for which he has also served as a reviewer and board member. He was Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Portuguese Chapter. open in new tab
  28. PAWEŁ T. KOSZ was born in Poland, in 1991. He received the Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in radio communication from the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), Poland, in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Since 2015, he has been with the Radio Communication Systems and Networks Department (GUT) as Ph.D. student of telecom- munication, and also as an IT Specialist employee, until 2019. He has participated in European COST Action (CA15104) -IRACON. His research inter- ests are concerned with propagation of radio waves in indoor environments and wireless body area networks. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award for Master Thesis in 2016 funded by the Polish Association of Telecommunication Engineers, and the Young Scientists Awards of URSI in Best Paper competition, in 2017. open in new tab
  29. MANUEL M. FERREIRA received the Licenci- ado degree in electronics and telecommunications from the University of Aveiro and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the IST/Technical University of Lisbon. Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, ESTSetúbal/Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal. He was involved in European projects and networks of excellence NEWCOM and ICT/LEXNET. His research interests include wireless/mobile channel characterization and wireless sensor networks. SŁAWOMIR J. AMBROZIAK (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Poland, in 1982. He received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in radio communication from the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), Poland, in 2008, 2013, and 2020, respectively. Since 2008, he has been with the Department of Radio communication Sys- tems and Networks, GUT, as Research Assis- tant (2008-2013), as an Assistant Professor (2013-2020), and has been a Associate Professor, since 2020. He is an author or coauthor of many publications, including book chapters, articles, reports, and papers presented during international and domestic conferences. He has participated and still participates in several projects related to special application of wireless techniques as well as two COST Actions (IC1004 and CA15104). His main scope of research is radio channel modelling in body area networks. In addition, his research interests include wireless communication and radio wave propagation. He is a mem- ber of the Gdansk Scientific Society. He is also a member of the Board of the Working Group on Propagation of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), the Management Committee Substitute Mem- ber of the COST CA15104 Action and Chair of the Sub Working Group Internet-of-Things for Health within this action, and the Vice-Chair of the Commission-F of the Polish National Committee of URSI. He was a recipient of the Young Scientists Awards of URSI, in 2016 and 2011, the Eighth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications Best Paper Award, in 2012, and many domestic awards.
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