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Point clouds have been a recent interest for ray tracing-based radio channel characterization, as sensors such as RGB-D cameras and laser scanners can be utilized to generate an accurate virtual copy of a physical environment. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Niklas Vaara , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

Ray tracing is a widely used deterministic method for radio propagation simulations, capable of producing physically accurate multipath components. The accuracy depends on the quality of the environment model and its electromagnetic…

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Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

With the rapid increase in mobile subscribers, there is a drive towards achieving higher data rates, prompting the use of higher frequencies in future wireless communication technologies. Wave propagation channel modeling for these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Xueyun Long , Amina Fellan , Mario Pauli , Hans D. Schotten , Thomas Zwick

We report the development of a new ray-tracing simulation tool having the potential of the full characterization of a radio link through the accurate study of the propagation path of the signal from the transmitting to the receiving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tannous , J. Nigrin

Ray tracing is increasingly utilized in wireless system simulations to estimate channel paths. In large-scale simulations with complex environments, ray tracing at high resolution can be computationally demanding. To reduce the computation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Ruibin Chen , Jayadev Joy , Yaqi Hu , Mingsheng Yin , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

Acquisition and processing of point clouds (PCs) is a crucial enabler for many emerging applications reliant on 3D spatial data, such as robot navigation, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. In most scenarios, PCs acquired by remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yulin Shao , Chenghong Bian , Li Yang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Deniz Gunduz

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Ge Cao , Zhen Peng

Ray tracing (RT) simulation is a widely used approach to enable modeling wireless channels in applications such as network digital twins. However, the computational cost to execute ray tracing (RT) is proportional to factors such as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Cláudio Modesto , Lucas Mozart , Pedro Batista , André Cavalcante , Aldebaro Klautau

Ray tracing (RT) is instrumental in 6G research in order to generate spatially-consistent and environment-specific channel impulse responses (CIRs). While acquiring accurate scene geometries is now relatively straightforward, determining…

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

The physical world consists of spatially varying media, such as the atmosphere and the ocean, in which light and sound propagates along non-linear trajectories. This presents a challenge to existing ray-tracing based methods, which are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Qi Mo , Hengchin Yeh , Dinesh Manocha

While recent advancements in deep-learning point cloud upsampling methods have improved the input to intelligent transportation systems, they still suffer from issues of domain dependency between synthetic and real-scanned point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sangwon Lim , Karim El-Basyouny , Yee Hong Yang

Site-specific radio frequency (RF) propagation prediction increasingly relies on models built from visual data such as cameras and LIDAR sensors. When operating in dynamic settings, the environment may only be partially observed. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingsheng Yin , Yaqi Hu , Tommy Azzino , Seongjoon Kang , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

The upcoming roll-out of the new wireless communication standard for wireless railway services, FRMCS, requires a thorough understanding of the system performance in real-world conditions, since this will strongly influence the deployment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Romain Charbonnier , Thierry Tenoux , Yoann Corre

Ray tracing accelerated with graphics processing units (GPUs) is an accurate and efficient simulation technique of wireless communication channels. In this paper, we extend a GPU-accelerated ray tracer (RT) to support the effects of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Sara Sandh , Hamed Radpour , Benjamin Rainer , Markus Hofer , Thomas Zemen

The high computational expense of simulating light through ray-tracing in large, sparsely instrumented particle detectors such as IceCube and Antares is a critical outstanding problem in particle physics. When the detector is sparsely…

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The worldwide commercialization of fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and the exciting possibilities offered by connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are pushing toward the deployment of heterogeneous sensors for tracking dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Francesco Nardo , Davide Peressoni , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Andrea Zanella

Predicting pathloss by considering the physical environment is crucial for effective wireless network planning. Traditional methods, such as ray tracing and model-based approaches, often face challenges due to high computational complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Yuan Gao , Tao Wen , Wenjing Xie , Jianbo Du , Yong Zeng , Dusit Niyato , Shugong Xu

Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

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