Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital Twins

Ray tracing (RT) simulation is a widely used approach to enable modeling wireless channels in applications such as network digital twins. However, the computational cost to execute ray tracing (RT) is proportional to factors such as the level of detail used in the adopted 3D scenario. This work prop...

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Main Authors: Claudio Modesto, Lucas Mozart, Pedro Batista, Andre Cavalcante, Aldebaro Klautau
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Pedro Batista
Andre Cavalcante
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description Ray tracing (RT) simulation is a widely used approach to enable modeling wireless channels in applications such as network digital twins. However, the computational cost to execute ray tracing (RT) is proportional to factors such as the level of detail used in the adopted 3D scenario. This work proposes RT pre-processing algorithms that aim at simplifying the 3D scene without distorting the channel, by reducing the scenario area and/or simplifying object shapes in the scenario. It also proposes a post-processing method that augments a set of RT results to achieve an improved time resolution. These methods enable using RT in applications that use a detailed and photorealistic 3D scenario while generating consistent wireless channels over time. Our simulation results with different urban scenarios scales, in terms of area and object details, demonstrate that it is possible to reduce the simulation time by more than 50% without compromising the accuracy of the multipath RT parameters, such as angles of arrival and departure, delay, phase, and path gain.
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spelling doaj-art-d3e2ed61bb2847db8277c08cffeb63892025-08-20T03:17:28ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society2644-125X2025-01-0165464547810.1109/OJCOMS.2025.358320211050957Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital TwinsClaudio Modesto0https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5184-8030Lucas Mozart1https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2092-4399Pedro Batista2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0776-2054Andre Cavalcante3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1383-7881Aldebaro Klautau4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7773-2080LASSE, Federal University of Pará, Belém, BrazilLASSE, Federal University of Pará, Belém, BrazilEricsson Research, Stockholm, SwedenEricsson Research Telecomunicações, Indaiatuba, BrazilLASSE, Federal University of Pará, Belém, BrazilRay tracing (RT) simulation is a widely used approach to enable modeling wireless channels in applications such as network digital twins. However, the computational cost to execute ray tracing (RT) is proportional to factors such as the level of detail used in the adopted 3D scenario. This work proposes RT pre-processing algorithms that aim at simplifying the 3D scene without distorting the channel, by reducing the scenario area and/or simplifying object shapes in the scenario. It also proposes a post-processing method that augments a set of RT results to achieve an improved time resolution. These methods enable using RT in applications that use a detailed and photorealistic 3D scenario while generating consistent wireless channels over time. Our simulation results with different urban scenarios scales, in terms of area and object details, demonstrate that it is possible to reduce the simulation time by more than 50% without compromising the accuracy of the multipath RT parameters, such as angles of arrival and departure, delay, phase, and path gain.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11050957/3D scenario simplificationchannel augmentationray tracing (RT)synthetic data generation
spellingShingle Claudio Modesto
Lucas Mozart
Pedro Batista
Andre Cavalcante
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Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital Twins
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
3D scenario simplification
channel augmentation
ray tracing (RT)
synthetic data generation
title Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital Twins
title_full Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital Twins
title_fullStr Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital Twins
title_full_unstemmed Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital Twins
title_short Accelerating Ray Tracing-Based Wireless Channels Generation for Real-Time Network Digital Twins
title_sort accelerating ray tracing based wireless channels generation for real time network digital twins
topic 3D scenario simplification
channel augmentation
ray tracing (RT)
synthetic data generation
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11050957/
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