Radio Propagation Prediction Software for Complex Mixed Path Physical Channels

It has become increasingly clear that the customers for the Mixed Path project desire API to the various Wireless InSite calculation engines. Thus the WI engines can be incorporated into tools such as OPNET and QualNet for network analysis or into various signal processing software. For network analysis all that is required is an extremely fast computing propagation model that captures the mixed path propagation at an acceptable resolution and fidelity. For signal processing analyses, the propagation channel is required. Thus a time domain capability API is required within WI. Lastly an easy to use graphics GUI is required by all of WI customers to allow the scene to be more easily rendered and modified. Thus the thrust for this effort was to develop rapid urban ray tracing and propagation computation methods that compute urban propagation predictions in less than one millisecond with an API that allows easy integration into network modeling tools. This was accomplished and an urban propagation API is now available for network simulation users.