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, this paper presents a novel method for conducting ray tracing at a coarse set of reference points and interpolating the channels at other locations. The key insight is to interpolate the images of reflected points. In addition to the computational savings, the method directly captures the spherical nature of each wavefront enabling fast and accurate computation of channels using line-of-sight MIMO and other wide aperture techniques. Through empirical validation and comparison with exhaustive ray tracing, we demonstrate the efficacy and practicality of our approach in achieving high-fidelity channel predictions with reduced computational resources.
@article{arxiv.2601.23119,
title = {Interpolation Techniques for Fast Channel Estimation in Ray Tracing},
author = {Ruibin Chen and Jayadev Joy and Yaqi Hu and Mingsheng Yin and Marco Mezzavilla and Sundeep Rangan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.23119},
year = {2026}
}
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This is the authors accepted version of a paper published in the Proceedings of the 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers