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We describe a beam tracing algorithm that simulates radio propagation inside a building. With a triangulation-based spatial data structure, the algorithm is fast enough to provide propagation simulations for large buildings in a few minutes of computing time.
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Fortune, S. (1996). A beam-tracing algorithm for prediction of indoor radio propagation. In: Lin, M.C., Manocha, D. (eds) Applied Computational Geometry Towards Geometric Engineering. WACG 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014493
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