Research Article

Indoor Off-Body Wireless Communication: Static Beamforming versus Space-Time Coding

Table 4

Signal envelope correlation of the received signals.

RX1RX2RX3RX4

NLoS, zero-elevation beam
RX1 1 0.49966 0.46488 0.37184
RX2 0.49966 1 0.49911 0.51818
RX3 0.46488 0.49911 1 0.58911
RX4 0.37184 0.51818 0.58911 1

LoS, zero-elevation beam
RX1 1 0.64439 0.64289 0.64433
RX2 0.64439 1 0.53591 0.54072
RX3 0.64289 0.53591 1 0.55964
RX4 0.64433 0.54072 0.55964 1

A dominant specular reflection, zero-elevation beam
RX1 1 0.55218 0.43311 0.19448
RX2 0.55218 1 0.58084 0.42663
RX3 0.43311 0.58084 1 0.58893
RX4 0.19448 0.42663 0.58893 1