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Ray-tracing (RT) has become central to site-specific electromagnetic propagation modeling in dynamic complex environments. Yet its computational burden grows sharply as high-fidelity digital twins of these environments scale to millions of…

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Wireless ray-tracing (RT) is emerging as a key tool for three-dimensional (3D) wireless channel modeling, driven by advances in graphical rendering. Current approaches struggle to accurately model beyond 5G (B5G) network signaling, which…

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The advent of 6G wireless communication marks a transformative era in technological connectivity, bringing forth challenges and opportunities alike. This paper unveils an innovative, open-source simulator, meticulously crafted for cell-free…

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The radio wave propagation channel is central to the performance of wireless communication systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel machine learning-empowered methodology for wireless channel modeling. The key ingredients include a…

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The integration of accurate and reproducible wireless network simulations is a key enabler for research on open, virtualized, and intelligent communication systems. Network Digital Twins (NDTs) provide a scalable alternative to costly and…

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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) constitute a promising technology that could fulfill the extreme performance and capacity needs of the upcoming 6G wireless networks, by offering software-defined control over wireless propagation…

Terahertz (THz) wireless communication has emerged as a promising solution for future data center interconnects; however, accurate channel characterization and system-level performance evaluation in complex indoor environments remain…

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The application package "IONORT" for the calculation of ray-tracing can be used by customers using the Windows operating system. It is a program whose interface with the user is created in MATLAB. In fact, the program launches an executable…

Geophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Cesidio Bianchi , Alessandro Settimi , Adriano Azzarone

Digital twins, virtual simulated replicas of physical scenes, are transforming system design across industries. However, their potential in radio frequency (RF) systems has been limited by the non-differentiable nature of conventional RF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Xingyu Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Kai Zheng , Xinmin Fang , Tzu-Mao Li , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Zhengxiong Li

Accurate RF propagation modeling in urban environments is critical for developing digital spectrum twins and optimizing wireless communication systems. We introduce OpenGERT, an open-source automated Geometry Extraction tool for Ray…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Serhat Tadik , Rajib Bhattacharjea , Johnathan Corgan , David Johnson , Jacobus Van der Merwe , Gregory D. Durgin

We present an application of automatic differentiation for particle transport through matter using a Geant4-like radiation transport simulation with a full electromagnetic physics model. When differentiating this step-based transport, we…

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New-generation communication and sensing systems are gaining strong interest in the context of Industry 4.0 e.g., related to mapping techniques, environmental sensing, automation or hyper-vision. The radio propagation in confined, cluttered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Grégory Gougeon , Frédéric Munoz , Yoann Corre , Raffaele D'Errico

Mobile channel modeling has always been the core part for design, deployment and optimization of communication system, especially in 5G and beyond era. Deterministic channel modeling could precisely achieve mobile channel description,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-30 Zhao Zhang , Danping He , Xiping Wang , Ke Guan , Zhangdui Zhong , Jianwu Dou

The advent of hardware ray tracing (RT) units has brought unprecedented realism to real-time rendered computer graphics. However, the potential of these units extends beyond graphics, offering acceleration for various computational tasks…

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Radio applications are increasingly being used in urban environments for cellular radio systems and safety applications that use vehicle-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure. We present a novel ray tracing-based radio propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ruichen Wang , Dinesh Manocha

At millimeter-wave frequencies, diffuse scattering from rough surfaces is an important propagation mechanism. Including this mechanism in radio propagation modeling tools,such as ray-tracing, is a key step towards realizing accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Stefanos Bakirtzis , Takahiro Hashimoto , Costas D. Sarris

Research on sixth-generation (6G) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) increasingly depends on multimodal datasets. These datasets need to jointly characterize wireless propagation, onboard sensing, and platform mobility. Existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Kang Yan , Yuqi Cao , Jiaqi Li , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

Neural ray tracing (RT) has emerged as a promising paradigm for channel modeling by combining physical propagation principles with neural networks. It enables high modeling accuracy and efficiency. However, current neural RT methods face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kejia Bian , Meixia Tao , Shu Sun , Jun Yu

LoRa is the proprietary physical layer (PHY) of LoRaWAN, which is a popular Internet-of-Things (IoT) protocol enabling low-power devices to communicate over long ranges. A number of reverse engineering attempts have been published in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 Joachim Tapparel , Orion Afisiadis , Paul Mayoraz , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

SDR (Software Defined Radio) provides flexible, reproducible, and longer-lasting radio tools for military and civilian wireless communications infrastructure. SDR is a radio communication system whose components are implemented as software.…

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