A Body-Blockage Analysis and Comparison Between Humans and a Full-Body Phantom: Using measurements at 28 GHz

Human blockage is an important phenomenon that should be considered in millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication systems. Realizing behavior could very valuable mm-wave link simulations, several models have been proposed previous works based on knife-edge diffraction (KED), high-frequency and measurements. This article investigates using a full-body phantom proves body accurate enough to replace human subject studies for both data talk modes. A campaign of measurements these two modes with 17 subjects different heights genders conducted. The effect types clothing studied subject. impact the relative antenna-user position body-blockage intensity investigated as are difficult achieve subjects.