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Site-specific Ray generation for Accurate Estimation of Signal Power

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Bernard Tamba Sandouno,

Yamen Alsaba,

Chadi Barakat,

Walid Dabbous,

Thierry TurlettiAuthors Info & Claims

MSWiM '22: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM Conference on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Pages 39 - 46

https://doi.org/10.1145/3551659.3559058

Published: 24 October 2022 Publication History

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Ray Tracing is a propagation modelling approach that accurately estimates the signal power received by end users while taking into account the details of the environment in their vicinity. This accuracy is at the cost of high computational load and high memory consumption due to the heavy computation performed by processes such as Ray Generation. In this paper, we introduce a site-specific ray generation technique able to generate up to 1 million rays within 5 seconds and a root mean square error for bandwidth estimation within 2 Mbps. Depending on the location of the antenna and the coverage area, our technique gives the minimum possible number of rays required in order to estimate end-users' signal power received and their download bitrate.

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Sandouno BAlsaba YBarakat CDabbous WTurletti T(2023)A Novel Approach to Mobile Outdoor QoS Map Generation2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118977(1-6)Online publication date: Mar-2023
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Sandouno BAlsaba YBarakat CDabbous WTurletti T(2023)A novel approach for ray tracing optimization in wireless communicationComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2023.07.016209:C(309-319)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comcom.2023.07.016

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Site-specific Ray generation for Accurate Estimation of Signal Power
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks

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MSWiM '22: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM Conference on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

October 2022

243 pages

ISBN:9781450394826

DOI:10.1145/3551659

General Chair:
Azzedine Boukerche
University of Ottawa, Canada
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University of Ferrara, Italy
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Zhi Sun
Tsinghua University, China

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Sandouno BBarakat CTurletti TDabbous W(2024)Optimizing Ray Tracing Techniques for Generating Large-Scale 3D Radio Frequency Maps2024 IEEE 25th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)10.1109/WoWMoM60985.2024.00057(307-316)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM60985.2024.00057
Sandouno BAlsaba YBarakat CDabbous WTurletti T(2023)A Novel Approach to Mobile Outdoor QoS Map Generation2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118977(1-6)Online publication date: Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118977
Sandouno BAlsaba YBarakat CDabbous WTurletti T(2023)A novel approach for ray tracing optimization in wireless communicationComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2023.07.016209:C(309-319)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comcom.2023.07.016

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