WiThRay: A Versatile Ray-Tracing Simulator for Smart Wireless Environments

04/22/2023
by   Hyuckjin Choi, et al.
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This paper presents the development and evaluation of WiThRay, a new wireless three-dimensional ray-tracing (RT) simulator. RT-based simulators are widely used for generating realistic channel data by combining RT methodology to get signal trajectories and electromagnetic (EM) equations, resulting in generalized channel impulse responses (CIRs). This paper first provides a comprehensive comparison on methodologies of existing RT-based simulators. We then introduce WiThRay, which can evaluate the performance of various wireless communication techniques such as channel estimation/tracking, beamforming, and localization in realistic EM wave propagation. WiThRay implements its own RT methodology, the bypassing on edge (BE) algorithm, that follows the Fermat's principle and has low computational complexity. The scattering ray calibration in WiThRay also provides a precise solution in the analysis of EM propagation. Different from most of the previous RT-based simulators, WiThRay incorporates reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), which will be a key component of future wireless communications. We thoroughly show that the channel data from WiThRay match sufficiently well with the fundamental theory of wireless channels. The virtue of WiThRay lies in its feature of not making any assumption about the channel, like being slow/fast fading or frequency selective. A realistic wireless environment, which can be conveniently simulated via WiThRay, naturally defines the physical properties of the wireless channels. WiThRay is open to the public, and anyone can exploit this versatile simulator to develop and test their communications and signal processing techniques.

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