3D ray-tracing parallel model for radio-propagation prediction

Abstract

A computational parallel model based on 3D ray- tracing for radio-propagation prediction is presented. This approach considers that the main tasks in a 3D ray-tracing technique can be evaluated in an independent and/or parallel way. The workload distribution among the participant nodes of the parallel architecture (cluster of PC's), is performed through a random assignment of the initial rays and the field points for them. Simulations are realized in order to validate and evaluate the performance of the proposed model.