Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Models for Multiple-Diffraction Scenarios

Abstract

Electromagnetic wave propagation models have been used for coverage estimation and field prediction at the receiver to make more reliable and efficient digital broadcasting systems. Propagation models can be classified into two groups as numerical and ray tracing based models. There is a tradeoff between computation time and accuracy of field prediction among electromagnetic wave propagation models. Although numerical models predict accurately, it requires more computation times. Ray tracing based models predicts the field strength less accurately with lower computation time. Many propagation models have been developed to provide optimum solution for accuracy and computation time

Keywords

• Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Slope Diffraction, Uniform Theory of Diffraction, Multiple-diffraction