Parallel irregular software for wave propagation simulation

• Published in: Future generation computer systems Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 279 - 289
• Main Authors: Guidec, Frédéric, Calégari, Patrice, Kuonen, Pierre
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.03.1998; Elsevier
• Subjects: Computer Science; Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing; Irregular algorithm; Mobile telecommunications; Modeling and Simulation; Networking and Internet Architecture; Object-oriented programming; Operations Research; Parallel computation; Radio wave propagation simulation; Transmission line matrix; Radio wave propagation simulation; Transmission line matrix; Parallel computation; Object-oriented programming; Mobile telecommunications; Irregular algorithm; object-oriented programming; transmission line matrix; performance modeling; mobile telecommunication; radio wave propagation simulation; irregular algorithm; Bulk Synchronous Programming; parallel programming
• ISSN: 0167-739X; 1872-7115
• DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(97)80149-5

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, modelling 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 and the implementation of ParFlow++, an object-oriented irregular parallel software for urban outdoor radio wave propagation prediction.