@inproceedings{c03d3e48dce147b2b2ad4215056491bb,
title = "Improving signal reliability in outdoor body-to-body communications using front and back positioned antenna diversity",
abstract = "It has previously been shown that human body shadowing can have a considerable impact on body-to-body communications channels in low multipath environments. Signal degradation directly attributable to shadowing when one user's body obstructs the main line of sight can be as great as 40 dB. When both people's bodies obstruct the direct line of sight path, the communications link can be lost altogether even at very short distances of a few metres. In this paper, using front and back positioned antennas, we investigate the utility of a simple selection combination diversity combining scheme with the aim of mitigating human body shadowing in outdoor body-to-body communications channels at 2.45 GHz. Early results from this work are extremely promising, indicating substantial diversity gains, as great as 29 dB, may be achieved in a number of everyday scenarios likely to be encountered in body-to-body networking.",
author = "Cotton, {Simon L.} and Scanlon, {William G.} and Adrian McKernan",
year = "2012",
month = may,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206649",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781457709180",
series = "EuCAP Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3393--3396",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2012",
address = "United States",
note = "6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2012, EuCAP 2012 ; Conference date: 26-03-2012 Through 30-03-2012",
}