Object-oriented parallel software for radio wave propagation simulation in urban environment

Abstract

The objective of the European project STORMS (Software Tools for the Optimization of Resources in Mobile Systems) is to develop a software tool to be used for design and planning of the future Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). In this context the ParFlow method permits the simulation of outdoor radio wave propagation in urban environment, modeling the physical system in terms of the motion of fictitious microscopic particles over a lattice. This paper gives an overview of the Parflow method, and reports the design, the implementation, and the performance analysis of ParFlow++, an object-oriented irregular parallel software for urban outdoor radio wave propagation prediction.