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The shadow fading in body-centric wireless propagation environments was studied. The statistical model with the linear fitting to the measured data was proposed. The results show that the radio waves are diffracted around the body. The conventional path gain model is suitable for body-centric propagation environments when taking account of the attenuation around human body calculated in this study.
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Fu, W., Ma, J. (2009). Radio Propagation Characteristics for Short Range Body-Centric Wireless Communications. In: Qi, L. (eds) Applied Computing, Computer Science, and Advanced Communication. FCC 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02342-2_26
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