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  • Sławomir Jerzy Ambroziak dr hab. inż.

    Sławomir J. Ambroziak was born in Poland, in 1982. He received the M.Sc., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in radio communication from Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech), Poland, in 2008, 2013, and 2020 respectively. Since 2008 he is with the Department of Radiocommunication Systems and Networks of the Gdańsk Tech: 2008-2013 as Research Assistant, 2013-2020 as Assistant Professor, and since 2020 as Associate Professor. He is...

  • FEW-BODY SYSTEMS

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    ISSN: 0177-7963 , eISSN: 1432-5411

  • Measurement Stand and Methodology for Research of the Off-Body and Body-to-Body Radio Channels in WBANs with Different Diversity Schemes

    The concept of an experimental test bed for system loss and channel impulse response measurements for off-body and body-to-body radio channels in wireless body area networks (WBANs) is fully described. The possible measurement scenarios that may occur in investigation of off-body and body-to-body channels are classified and described in detail. Additionally, an evaluation is provided of the standard and expanded uncertainties of...

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  • Radio Channel Measurements in Body-to-Body Communications in Different Scenarios

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    - Year 2016

    This paper presents body-to-body radio channel measurements at the 2.45 GHz band, for different body motion scenarios and on-body antenna placements, and both indoor and outdoor environments. Measurement equipment, investigated scenarios and considered environments are described, an initial analysis of results being presented. The mean path loss and the standard deviation depend on the mutual location of transmitting and receiving...

  • Radio Channel Measurements in Body-to-Body Communications in Different Scenarios

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    - Year 2016

    This paper presents body-to-body radio channel measurements at the 2.45 GHz band, for different body motion scenarios and on-body antenna placements, and both indoor and outdoor environments. Measurement equipment, investigated scenarios and considered environments are described, an initial analysis of results being presented. The mean path loss and the standard deviation depend on the mutual location of transmitting and receiving...

  • An Off-Body Channel Model for Body Area Networks in Indoor Environments

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    - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION - Year 2016

    This paper presents an off-body channel model for body area networks (BANs) in indoor environments. The proposed model, which is based on both simulations and measurements in a realistic environment, consists of three components: mean path loss, body shadowing, and multipath fading. Seven scenarios in a realistic indoor office environment containing typical scatterers have been measured: five were static (three standing and two...

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  • Badanie i analiza efektu cienia radiowego w sieciach WBAN typu off-body i body-to-body

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    W referacie zaprezentowano prosty model matematyczny, opisujący efekt cienia radiowego powodowany przez ciało ludzkie w sieciach WBAN typu off-body i body-to-body. Model ten oparty jest na charakterystyce cienia radiowe-go w postaci funkcji kosinusoidalnej z empirycznie wyznaczonym parametrem amplitudy (maksimum charaktery-styki cienia radiowego), który – jak dowiedziono – jest liniowo zależny od odległości między anteną nasobną...

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  • Fading Characteristics for Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Indoor and Outdoor Environments

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    - Year 2018

    This paper presents an analysis of the fading characteristics in dynamic body-to-body channels, based on measurements performed at 2.45 GHz in indoor and outdoor environments. The statistical analysis of the small- and large-scale fading shows that the Nakagami Distribution is the best model for the former and the Log-Normal one for the latter. An important influence of body shadowing...

  • POMIAROWE BADANIA PROPAGACYJNE W SIECIACH WBAN TYPU BODY-TO-BODY

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    W referacie zaprezentowano pomiary tłumienia propagacyjnego w sieciach WBAN typu body-to-body, pracujących przy częstotliwości 2,45 GHz, dla zróżnicowanych scenariuszy i środowisk badawczych. Wstępna analiza wyników pomiarów, bazująca na wartości średniej i odchyleniu standardowym tłumienia propagacyjnego wykazała, że wartości te są zależne od wzajemnego położenia anteny nadawczej i odbiorczej, a także od typu scenariusza dynamicznego...

  • Application of 3D Whole Body Scanning in Research on Human Body Surface Area

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    Human body surface area (BSA) is one of the major parameters used in several medical fields. Its heterogeneity caused by individual human characteristics sustains a many-decades-long research on the matter. Today’s technology allows to create exact body models in mere seconds. However, an extensive research that includes scanning people with major disfigurements or people suffering from diseases, which often prevent their mobility,...

  • System Loss Model for Body-to-Body Networks in Indoor and Outdoor Environments

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    - Year 2023

    A system loss model for body-to-body networks in indoor and outdoor environments is proposed in this paper, based on measurements taken at 2.45 GHz. The influence of the type of environment, antenna visibility and user mobility on model parameters has been investigated. A significant impact of mutual antennas’ placement and their visibility is shown. The proposed model fits well to empirical data, with the average root mean square...

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  • Assessment of User Mobility’s Influence on System Loss in Several Body-to-Body Scenarios

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    - Year 2021

    In this paper, Body-to-Body communications in indoor and outdoor environments for different on-body antenna configurations and different mobility scenarios were studied, based on system loss measurements at 2.45 GHz. The main objective is to properly characterise the influence of the Transmitter-Receiver configuration on system loss and fast fading behaviour, the latter being modelled by the Rice Distribution. Globally, it is observed...

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  • Computing methods for fast and precise body surface area estimation of selected body parts

    Currently used body surface area (BSA) formulas give satisfactory results only for individuals with typical physique, while for elderly, obese or anorectic people accurate results cannot be expected. Particularly noteworthy are the results for individuals with severe obesity (body-mass index greater than 35 kg/m2), for which BSA estimation errors reached 80%. The main goal of our study is the development of precise BSA models for...

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  • An Off-Body Narrowband and Ultra-Wide Band Channel Model for Body Area Networks in a Ferryboat Environment

    In the article an off-body narrowband and ultra-wide band channel model for body area networks in a ferryboat environment is described. Considering the limited number of publications there is a need to develop an off-body channel model, which will facilitate the design of radio links, both from the multimedia services provider and the security point of view, for body area networks in this atypical environment. A mobile heterogeneous...

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  • Multichannel Human Body Communication

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    Human Body Communication is an attractive alternative for traditional wireless communication (Bluetooth, ZigBee) in case of Body Sensor Networks. Low power, high data rates and data security makes it ideal solution for medical applications. In this paper, signal attenuation for different frequencies, using FR4 electrodes, has been investigated. Performance of single and multichannel transmission with frequency modulation of analog...

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  • An Off-Body Narrowband and Ultra-Wide Band Channel Model for Body Area Networks in a Ferry Environment

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    In the article an off-body narrowband and ultra-wide band channel model for Body Area Networks in a ferry environment is described. A mobile, heterogeneous measurement stand, that consists of three types of devices: miniaturized mobile nodes, stationary reference nodes and a data acquisition server was developed. A detailed analysis of both radio channels parameters in untypical indoor environment was carried out. An analysis of...

  • BODY IMAGE

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    ISSN: 1740-1445 , eISSN: 1873-6807

  • Body & Society

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    ISSN: 1357-034X , eISSN: 1460-3632

  • Fading Modelling in Dynamic Off-Body Channels

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    - Year 2016

    This paper presents an off-body fading channel model for Body Area Networks. The proposed model, based on both simulations and measurements at 2.45 GHz in a realistic indoor environment, consists of three components: mean path loss, body shadowing, and multipath fading. The first is modelled as a log function of distance, the path loss exponent being in between 0.4 and 1.6. A statistical perspective is taken for the other two components,...

  • Fading Modelling in Dynamic Off-Body Channels

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    - Year 2015

    This paper presents an off-body fading channel model for Body Area Networks (BANs) in indoor environments. The proposed model, which is based on both simulations and measurements in a realistic environment, consists of three components: mean path loss, body shadowing, and multipath fading. Seven scenarios in an indoor environment (a medium-size room with furniture, mostly consisting of wooden tables and chairs) have been measured:...

  • Evaluation of Body Surface Area Formulae Based on 3D Body Scans

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    Human body surface area (BSA) is an established parameter for the calculation of chemotherapy drugs dosage, treatment of chronic hepatitis B, treatment of burns or for establishing a dosing regimen for antimicrobials. Although being a critical parameter, usage of modern 3D scanners, which would measure the exact BSA value, is often impossible in time-sensitive operations or for patients unable to withstand the scanning process....

  • Badania i analiza zaników w sieciach WBAN typu body-to-body pracujących w różnych środowiskach propagacyjnych

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    Przedstawiono badania zaników w sieciach WBAN typu body-to-body, oparte na wynikach pomiarów tłumienia systemowego przeprowadzonych w zamkniętym i otwartym środowisku propagacyjnym przy częstotliwości 2,45 GHz. Analiza statystyczna wyników dowiodła, że zaniki szybkozmienne najlepiej odzwierciedla rozkład Nakagamiego-m, natomiast zaniki wolnozmienne można opisać rozkładem log-normalnym.

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  • A body position influence on ECG derived respiration

    An influence of a human body position on ECG derived respiration (EDR) signal is presented in the paper. Examinations were performed during deep, suspended and normal breathing for eight people in four different body positions. EDR and thoracic impedance signals were compared using correlation and standard deviation coefficients. Obtained results have shown that it is possible to monitor breath activity of people being in different...

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  • Density functional approaches to the many-body problem

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  • Performance Evaluation of GAM in Off-Body Path Loss Modelling for Body Area Networks

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    - Year 2021

    This paper addresses the performance evaluation of an off-body path loss model, based on measurements at 2.45 GHz, which has been developed with the use of the Generalised Additive Model, allowing to model a non-linear dependence on different predictor variables. The model formulates path loss as a function of distance, antennas’ heights, antenna orientation angle and polarisation, results showing that performance is very sensitive...

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  • Measurements of Path Loss in Off-Body Channels in Indoor Environments

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    - Year 2015

    The main goal of the paper is to investigate the influence of body orientation and on-body antenna placement on the path loss in off-body communications. In addition, the influence of different bodies is analysed.

  • Path Loss Analysis in Off-Body Channels in Indoor Environment

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    - Year 2015

    This temporary document describes an analysis of path loss in off-body channels in an indoor environment. The influence of body orientation and on-body antenna placement on path loss in off-body communications as well as of different bodies has been investigated. Five static scenarios, six distances between body and antenna and eight body orientations were analysed; moreover, two dynamic scenarios were investigated. The smallest...

  • Measurements of Path Loss in Off-Body Channels in Indoor Environments

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    - Year 2014

    This paper presents a measurements of the path loss for validation of a statistical model for off-body radio channels in an indoor multipath environment, which considers the distance dependent mean path loss, and describes body shadowing and fast fading components in a statistical way. The measurement equipment and propagation indoor environment have been presented. Two different bodies and five static and two walking scenarios...

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  • Wideband Channel Measurements for Polarised Indoor Off-Body Communications

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    - Year 2018

    This paper presents the initial results of wideband channel measurements for polarised off-body communication at 5.8 GHz, in an indoor environment. Channel Impulse Response measurements were performed simultaneously for two orthogonal polarisations of the wearable antenna, and repeated for vertical and horizontal orientations of the off-body one. Four types of measurement scenarios were considered in order to investigate the influence...

  • Characteristics of the Polarised Off-Body Channel in Indoor Environments

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    - Year 2016

    This paper addresses the depolarisation effect in off-body Body Area Networks channels, based on measurements performed at 2.45 GHz in an indoor environment. Seven different scenarios, involving both static and dynamic users, were considered, taking a statistical perspective. The analysis of the cross-polarisation discrimination is performed, as well as the analysis of path loss in co- and cross-polarised channels. Results show...

  • Characteristics of the polarised off-body channel in indoor environments

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    This paper addresses the depolarisation effect in off-body body area networks channels, based on measurements performed at 2.45 GHz in an indoor environment. Seven different scenarios, involving both static and dynamic users, were considered, taking a statistical perspective. The analysis of the cross-polarisation discrimination is performed, as well as the analysis of path loss in co- and cross-polarised channels. Results show...

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  • Mobility’s Influence on System Loss in Off-Body BAN Scenarios

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    - Year 2022

    In this paper, a measurement campaign for off body communications in an indoor environment is investigated for a set of on-body antennas. The channel impulse response was measured with the user approaching and departing from an off-body fixed antenna using two user dynamics, standing at fixed positions and walking. The processing of the measurement data allowed to evaluate system loss statistics. Different antenna configurations...

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  • Wideband Off-Body Channel Characteristics with Dynamic User

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    - Year 2019

    This paper presents the preliminary results of a dynamic off-body channel characterisation study, based on wideband measurements at 5.8 GHz in an indoor environment. The Channel Impulse Response (CIR) was measured for a scenario with the user approaching and departing from the off-body antenna. A CIR deconvolution procedure was performed jointly in two polarisations, and the received signal power, Cross-Polarisation Discrimination...

  • Body surface area formulae: an alarming ambiguity

    Body surface area (BSA) plays a key role in several medical fields, including cancer chemotherapy, transplantology, burn treatment and toxicology. BSA is often a major factor in the determination of the course of treatment and drug dosage. A series of formulae to simplify the process have been developed. Because easy-to-identify, yet general, body coefficient results of those formulae vary considerably, the question arises as to...

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  • Impact of radio wave polarisation on off-body communications in indoor environments

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    - Year 2015

    This paper describes the measurements and the analysis of the impact of radio wave polarisation on off-body communications in Body Area Networks in indoor environments. Measurements on polarisation impact are briefly described. Five investigated scenarios with different body postures and different antenna placements are characterised. The difference between the vertical and horizontal components of the received radio signal are...

  • Radio Channel Measurements in Off-Body Communications in a Ferry Passenger Cabin

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    - Year 2017

    This paper presents an off-body radio channel measurements in a ferry passenger cabin at 2.45 GHz band, for static sleeping scenarios with different body orientation and on-body antennas placements, and also for upper and lower sleeping berths. The measurements have been performed with two types of on-body wearable receiving antennas: FlexPIFA (flexible planar inverted F antenna), and FlexNotch (flexible adhesive-backed notch antenna)...

  • User Mobility’s Influence on System Loss in Off-Body BAN Scenarios

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    - Year 2022

    In this paper, a measurement campaign for off-body communications in an indoor environment is investigated for a set of on-body antennas. The channel impulse response was measured with the user approaching and departing from an off-body fixed antenna using two user dynamics: standing at fixed positions and walking. The processing of the measurement data allowed to evaluate system loss statistics. Different antenna configurations...

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  • An Empirical Model for the Polarisation Characteristics of Indoor Off-Body Channels

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    - Year 2017

    This paper presents an analysis of the polarisation characteristics for the channel in dynamic off-body communications, and an empirical channel model, based on measurements performed at 2.45 GHz in an office environment. Body presence and propagation conditions have a strong influence on signal depolarisation. The model assumes three components for the total path loss: mean path loss, represented by a log-distance function with...

  • Body, Space and Technology

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    eISSN: 1470-9120

  • System Loss in UWB Off-Body Communications in a Ferry Environment

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    In this paper, the system loss in UWB off-body communications in a ferry environment based on measurements is presented. A mobile measurement set-up, consisting of WBAN nodes with UWB DWM1000 modules, was used. System loss was split into LOS and NLOS conditions. For the former, the smallest mean value, 24.4 dB, was obtained for the user approaching the fixed terminal, with the antenna on his chest, and the largest, 28.1 dB, for...

  • Proposal of a System Loss Model for Body Area Network in Passenger Ferry Environment

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    - Year 2018

    In the paper, proposal of an empirical off-body system loss model for Body Area Networks working in a passenger ferry environment at 2.45 GHz has been presented. The measurements were carried out for dynamic scenarios in the discotheque passenger ferry environment. The general model formula consists of three components: mean system loss, attenuation resulting from the variable antenna position on the human body, and attenuation...

  • A navigation device utilizing body communication channel for mobile wearable systems

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    - Year 2017

    A novel touch sensor utilizing a body communication technology is presented in the paper. The proposed device accepts orders (gestures) only from a person wearing it. Moreover, when comparing it to a similar, however an optical one, it appears as a less power consumable. Preliminary results of its properties examination are presented and discussed. Additionally, the developed sensor allows to measure a human body the electrical...

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  • An Approach to Mean Path Loss Model Estimation for Off-Body Channels

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    - Year 2017

    This paper presents an approach to estimation of the mean path loss model parameters in off-body Body Area Networks channels. In this approach, the path loss exponent is constrained to a value obtained for the line-of-sight (LoS) propagation in the co-polarised channel, considering a generalised static scenario. The comparison of the goodness of fit between the proposed approach and other approaches, for a set of measurements obtained...

  • The Analysis of Cross-Polarisation Discrimination for Body Area Networks in Cylindrical Metallic Environment

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    The analysis of cross-polarisation discrimination for Body Area Networks in an untypical environment of cylindrical metallic room has been performed in the paper. This analysis was done based on the measurements carried out for dynamic narrowband off-body channels operating at the frequency of 2.45 GHz. The results have shown that there is a strong dependence of the depolarisation effect on the existence of direct component in...

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  • Linking Fashion and Tourism: From Body to Clothing and Lifestyle

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    - Year 2023

    There are many profound links between fashion and tourism. This chapter provides a critical reflection, mainly from a philosophical, historical, and linguistic perspective, on the dynamic relationship and parallel evolution between these two sectors. It explains how their intercon nectedness form and mirror contemporary society. This chapter classifies the connections between the two, starting with the person, her body, and the...

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  • Tracking body movement for radio channel measurements in BAN with indoor positioning system

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    This paper presents indoor positioning system based on inertial navigation with additional distance measurements using UWB modems and map matching to increase accuracy and eliminate position drift. Such system may be used to track position of human body during radio channel measurements for body area networks. Performance of proposed system and limitations caused by inertial navigation are briefly described.

  • A Novel Bitrate Adaptation Method for Heterogeneous Wireless Body Area Networks

    In the article, a novel bitrate adaptation method for data streams allocation in heterogeneous Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is presented. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was compared with other known algorithms of data stream allocation using computer simulation. A dedicated simulator has been developed using results of measurements in the real environment. The usage of the proposed adaptive data streams allocation...

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  • A Novel Bitrate Adaptation Method for Heterogeneous Wireless Body Area Networks

    In the article, a novel bitrate adaptation method for data streams allocation in heterogeneous Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is presented. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was compared with other known algorithms of data stream allocation using computer simulation. A dedicated simulator has been developed using results of measurements in the real environment. The usage of the proposed adaptive data streams allocation...

  • An Empirical System Loss Model for Body Area Networks in a Passenger Ferry Environment

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    - Year 2018

    This paper presents a general empirical system loss model for estimating propagation loss in Body Area Networks in off-body communications at 2.45 GHz in a passenger ferry environment. The model is based on measurements, which were carried out in dynamic scenarios in the discotheque passenger ferry environment. The model consists of three components: mean system loss, attenuation resulting from the variable antenna position on...

  • An Empirical System Loss Model for Body Area Networks in a Passenger Ferry Environment

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    - Year 2018

    This paper presents a general empirical system loss model for estimating propagation loss in Body Area Networks in off-body communications at 2.45 GHz in a passenger ferry environment. The model is based on measurements, which were carried out in dynamic scenarios in the discotheque passenger ferry environment. The model consists of three components: mean system loss, attenuation resulting from the variable antenna position on...