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

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</svg> are the dimensions of the ground plane, as indicated in Table <a href="../tab1/">1</a>. The antenna array is placed on the back of the body, inside the firefighter jacket.</table>

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Figure 2: Indoor Off-Body Wireless Communication: Static Beamforming versus Space-Time Coding 