Antenna Diversity Techniques for Enhanced Ultra-Wideband Body-Centric Wireless Networks in Healthcare - Ultra-Wideband and 60 GHz Communications for Biomedical Applications - page 165

Table 5 Diversity parameters for different receiver (Rx) positions with respect to transmitter (Tx) on wall. At Loc. 2 in an indoor environment as shown in
Fig. 3 ) at 0.34 λ 0 spacing
Link Chest Head Wrist Ankle Back

1 2 3 4 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 4

MRC 9.9 9.11 10.01 10.31 10.94 12.42 11.90 9.74 10.04 9.45 13.46 14.39 14.93 14.28

EGC 9.72 9.39 9.78 10.05 10.44 10.96 11.03 9.36 9.77 8.83 11.24 11.91 12.41 13.09

SC 9.33 9.65 9.35 9.54 9.86 10.04 10.39 8.11 9.23 9.59 10.01 10.78 12.41 13.09

ρ e 0.094 0.074 0.061 0.064 0.059 0.033 0.085 0.090 0.099 0.053 0.012 0.033 0.030 0.032

I 4.16 4.39 5.08 5.57 4.57 3.33 4.03 5.92 4.53 6.85 1.57 1.93 0.30 0.24

All units are in dB except ρ e , where I is the power imbalance EGC equal-gain combining, MRC maximum-ratio combining, SC selection combining