A Fast Prediction Method for the Radio Propagation under the Obstacle Environment

Abstract

To rapidly simulate the forward electromagnetic scattering of multiple obstacles, we propose a new forward scattering prediction model, which can effectively simulate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a large-scale environment, accurately calculate the scattering of multi-scale structures, and realize multi-region parallel computation. Specifically, the proposed model consists of an obstacle region and a large-scale environment region. To make the model consistent with the real scene quickly and accurately, the time-domain parabolic equation (TDPE) and discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) method are employed to simulate the propagation of electromagnetic waves and the scattering of obstacles, respectively. At the same time, each region is equivalent to a linear timeinvariant (LTI) system, and the transfer function of each system is calculated by the discrete Laplace Z-transform to realize multi-region parallel computation. This model can simulate the propagation of the electromagnetic wave in multiple obstacles more quickly under large-scale background than the existing obstacle forward scattering model. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed model is effective in terms of accuracy and runtime performance.