Model for Ray-Based UTD Simulations of the Human Body Shadowing Effect in 5G Wireless Systems

Table 2

Median values of path loss obtained for different geometries of models—body orientation 2.

Human body model	Median of path loss in the distance from 0.5 m to 1 m (dB)	Difference to FDTD in the distance from 0.5 m to 1 m (dB)	Median of path loss in the distance from 1 m to 1.5 m (dB)	Difference to FDTD in the distance from 1 m to 1.5 m (dB)
a	b	c	d	e
FDTD: heterogeneous	56.5	—	58.6	—
UTD: 36 walls	48.9	7.6	46.7	11.9
UTD: 20 walls	54.1	2.4	49.9	8.7
UTD: 16 walls	50.9	5.6	49	9.6
UTD: 15 walls	55.1	1.4	50.6	8
UTD: 14 walls	54.2	2.3	52.1	6.5
UTD: 13 walls	54.8	1.7	52.8	5.8
UTD: 10 walls	58.1	1.6	57.6	0.9