Fast ray tracing for microcellular and indoor environments

Author

Agelet, Fernando Aguado ; Fontán, Fernando Pérez ; Formella, Arno

Author_Institution

ETSI Telecomunicacion, Vigo Univ., Spain

Volume

33

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1484

Lastpage

1487

Abstract

We present a very efficient algorithm which calculates deterministically the path losses, delay profiles and other characteristics of a mobile channel. The algorithm can be used both for indoor and outdoor environments. We apply the technique of tracing rays and compute reflections, transmissions and diffractions with the help of geometrical optics, heuristical approximations and the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD)

Keywords

cellular radio; delays; electromagnetic wave reflection; electromagnetic wave transmission; geometrical theory of diffraction; indoor radio; land mobile radio; losses; multipath channels; quadtrees; radiowave propagation; ray tracing; UTD; delay profiles; diffraction; fast ray tracing; geometrical optics; heuristical approximations; indoor environments; microcellular radio; mobile channel; outdoor environments; path losses; quadtree data structure; reflection; transmission; uniform theory of diffraction; Buildings; Cities and towns; Data structures; Diffraction; Image segmentation; Indoor environments; Ray tracing; Reflection; Testing; Tree data structures;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.582541

Filename

582541