Analysis of the Multipath Effect of Human Presence on Indoor 60 GHz Wireless Channels

The 60 GHz band plays an important role for wireless signalling with extremely high data rates, both for WiFi and cellular applications. For the design and performance analysis of this band, the impact of human interactions on the propagation from transmitter to receiver has to be taken into account. While the impact of a single human body blocking the line-of-sight (LOS) has been investigated as a deterministic effect, statistical models describing the effect of multiple human bodies, acting as reflectors, on received power and delay spread are still lacking. To close this gap, this paper analyzes measurements of 60 GHz channel impulse responses in static but "evolutionary" office scenarios that involve one and two people and uses them to calibrate a ray tracer that allows the generation of a larger number of channel realizations. Regression fits are applied to the resulting channel responses to obtain an accurate characterization of human-induced power and delay variations in proximity situations where humans give rise to additional multipath(1).