An empirical model for the polarisation characteristics of indoor off-body channels
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 a path loss exponent of 1.71, Lognormal-distributed shadowing fading, and Nakagami-distributed multipath fading. The Nakagami Distribution shows a trend towards the Rice one in the co-polarised and the Rayleigh one in the cross-polarised channels.