Multi-Person Blockage Loss Modeling at Millimeter-Wave Band

The loss characteristics caused by human bodies blockage have a significant impact on millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. In this paper, the influence of the number of human bodies on blockage loss is firstly analyzed in both corridor and classical indoor scenarios at the mmWave band. Then, in order to represent the blockage effect caused by different numbers of human bodies, the line-of-sight (LOS) outage probability is introduced. Finally, a multi-person blockage loss model is proposed based on the LOS outage probability and human model. The model demonstrates that the multi-person blockage loss can be modeled as Gaussian by the LOS outage probability. These results try to give some insights into the modeling of human blockage, especially in multi-person cases.