DocumentCode :
64684
Title :
Nearest object priority based integrated rough surface scattering algorithm for 3D indoor propagation prediction
Author :
Kausar, Asmz ; Reza, Aw ; Noordin, Ka ; Islam, Mohammad ; Ramiah, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Volume :
11
Issue :
10
fYear :
2014
fDate :
Oct. 2014
Firstpage :
147
Lastpage :
158
Abstract :
Since rough surface scattering has a great impact on the accuracy of the propagation prediction algorithm, an integrated algorithm for indoor propagation prediction including rough surface scattering is proposed here. This algorithm is composed of a three dimensional (3D) ray tracing algorithm based on binary space partitioning (BSP) and a diffuse scattering algorithm based on Oren-Nayar´s theory. Lack of accuracy and prohibitive time consumption are the main drawbacks of the existing ray tracing based propagation prediction models. To defy these shortcomings, the balanced BSP tree is used in the proposed algorithm to accelerate the ray tracing, while the nearest object priority technique (NOP) and in contact surface (ICS) is used to eliminate the repeated ray-object intersection tests. Therefore, the final criteria of this study are the time consumption as well as accuracy by predicting the field strength and the number of received signals. Using the proposed approaches, our algorithm becomes faster and more accurate than the existing algorithms. A detailed comparative study with existing algorithms shows that the proposed algorithm has at most 37.83% higher accuracy and 34.44% lower time consumption. Moreover, effects of NOP and ICS techniques and scattering factor on time and ray prediction accuracy are also presented.
Keywords :
indoor radio; ray tracing; 3D indoor propagation prediction; Oren-Nayar´s theory; binary space partitioning; diffuse scattering algorithm; nearest object priority technique; propagation prediction algorithm; ray-object intersection tests; rough surface scattering algorithm; three dimensional ray tracing algorithm; Prediction algorithms; Rough surfaces; Scattering; Surface measurement; Surface roughness; binary space partitioning; communications; nearest object priority; ray tracing; rough surface scattering;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Communications, China
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1673-5447
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/CC.2014.6969803
Filename :
6969803
Link To Document :
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