Performance of Channel Prediction Using 3D Ray-tracing Scheme Compared to Conventional 2D Scheme

Abstract

Channel prediction tools using ray-tracing scheme can be used to get information of communication channel instead of channel measurement. Three dimensional (3D) ray-tracing technique is known for the better accuracy compared to two dimensional (2D) ray-tracing. But it requires a lot of calculations, thus 2D simulation has been generally performed. This paper shows how precious 3D ray-tracing predicts the received power indoors compared to 2D one. For this work, wave propagation phenomena are analyzed using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method and the channel measurement data also will be offered as a standard of comparison.