Development of Phantom for Human Body Blockage Experiment on Indoor Radio Wave Propagation

Abstract

The design of a mannequin phantom replacing the human body for channel measurements on 5G and 6G communications is proposed. The phantom should mimic the human body in terms of a few wave propagation characteristics: penetration, reflection, diffraction, and surface propagation. We measured the characteristics of the human body at millimeter-wave frequencies with a precision robot-based measurement platform. We also present some of the preliminary data from the mannequin phantom measurements as the proof of concept.