MmWave Indoor Human Blockage Measurements and Modeling at 26, 62, and 70 GHz Bands

This paper investigates the shadowing loss of the human body at multiple millimeter wave (mmWave) bands by real-time channel measurements and theoretical modelling. The human blockage (HB) measurements are performed at three frequency bands from 24 GHz to 73 GHz, in an open office environment set-up with computer clusters, using custom-designed Durham University’s channel sounder. Different blockage models are applied to simulate the human body shadowing (HBS) attenuation effects. The measurement and modeling results of this study are significant in terms of predicting the HBS attenuation for future network system applications.