9th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

Experimental On-Body Fading and Breathing Doppler Characterization on Human Torso at 60 GHz

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257168,
        author={Luca Petrillo and Theodoros Mavridis and Julien Sarrazin and Aziz Benlarbi-Dela\~{n} and Philippe De Doncker},
        title={Experimental On-Body Fading and Breathing Doppler Characterization on Human Torso at 60 GHz},
        proceedings={9th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2014},
        month={11},
        keywords={millimeter wave measurement electromagnetic propagation},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257168}
    }
    
  • Luca Petrillo
    Theodoros Mavridis
    Julien Sarrazin
    Aziz Benlarbi-Delaï
    Philippe De Doncker
    Year: 2014
    Experimental On-Body Fading and Breathing Doppler Characterization on Human Torso at 60 GHz
    BODYNETS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257168
Luca Petrillo1,*, Theodoros Mavridis1, Julien Sarrazin2, Aziz Benlarbi-Delaï2, Philippe De Doncker1
  • 1: Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • 2: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06
*Contact email: lpetrill@ulb.ac.be

Abstract

This paper studies temporal fading and the Doppler effect due to breathing at 60 GHz on the front side of an human torso through experimental results obtained in anechoic environment. The temporal fading is experimentally investigated and a model is proposed to characterized it as function of the distance between transmitter and receiver. Doppler spectrum due to breathing is characterized and modeled for specific links on the torso affected by inflation and deflation. Measurements and results are presented for both horizontal and vertical polarizations.