Physics-informed line-of-sight learning for scalable deterministic channel modeling
Abstract
Deterministic channel modeling maps a physical environment to its site-specific electromagnetic response. Ray tracing produces complete multi-dimensional channel information but remains prohibitively expensive for area-wide deployment. We identify line-of-sight (LoS) region determination as the dominant bottleneck. To address this, we propose DLoS, a physics-informed neural network that reformulates dense pixel-level LoS prediction into sparse vertex-level visibility classification and projection point regression, avoiding the spectral bias at sharp boundaries. A geometric post-processing step enforces hard physical constraints, yielding exact piecewise-linear boundaries. Because LoS computation depends only on building geometry, cross-band channel information is obtained by updating material parameters without retraining. We also construct RayVerse-100, a ray-level dataset spanning 100 urban scenarios with per-ray complex gain, angle, delay, and geometric trajectory. Evaluated against rigorous ray tracing ground truth, DLoS achieves 3.28~dB mean absolute error in received power, 4.65 angular spread error, and 20.64~ns delay spread error, while accelerating visibility computation by over 25.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.27976,
title = {Physics-informed line-of-sight learning for scalable deterministic channel modeling},
author = {Xiucheng Wang and Junxi Huang and Conghao Zhou and Xuemin Shen and Nan Cheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27976},
year = {2026}
}