[Abstract]: Wireless local area network applications may includethe use of bodyworn or handportable terminals. For the first time,this paper compares measurements and simulations of a narrowband5.2-GHz radio channel incorporating a fixed transmitter anda mobile bodyworn receiver. Two indoor environments were considered,an 18-m long corridor and a 42-m2 office. The modelingtechnique was a site-specific ray-tracing simulator incorporatingthe radiation pattern of the bodyworn receiver. In the corridor, themeasured body-shadowing effect was 5.4 dB, while it was 15.7 dBin the office. First- and second-order small-scale fading statisticsfor the measured and simulated results are presented and comparedwith theoretical Rayleigh and lognormal distributions. Theroot mean square error in the cumulative distributions for the simulatedresults was less than 0.74% for line-of-sight conditions andless than 1.4% for nonline-of-sight conditions.
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