Parallel Cellular Automata Based Simulation of Radio Signal Propagation

Abstract

Environmental monitoring is an increasing interest dueto serious impacts of climate change on socio-economic factors andhuman health. In these applications, radio links are the keytechnology allowing sensors to connect into networks that canoperate on various topologies and ranges. In this paper we proposea framework for easing exploration of radio link possibilities,taking into account geographical topologies. Massive parallelexecution on GPUs and cellular method were utilized in order tocompute radio propagation and estimate the strength of receivedpower. Several physical simulations could be federated forevaluating their consistency related to the described phenomena.