Object-Oriented Parallel Software for Parallel Radio Wave Propagation Simulation in Urban Environment

Frédéric Guidec (1) , Patrice Calégari (1) , Pierre Kuonen (1) , Michel Pahud (1)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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 the design and the 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 urban outdoor radio wave propagation prediction.

Mots clés: radio wave propagation simulation; transmission line matrix; mobile telecommunication; parallel programming; irregular algorithm; object-oriented programming; performance modeling; Bulk Synchronous Programming

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Modélisation et simulation; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

Frédéric Guidec, Patrice Calégari, Pierre Kuonen, Michel Pahud. Object-Oriented Parallel Software for Parallel Radio Wave Propagation Simulation in Urban Environment. Computers and Articicial Intelligence, 1999, 18 (6), pp.525-539. ⟨hal-00346558⟩