Ray Tracing RF Field Prediction: An Unforgiving Validation

Table 1

Comparison between computation times and simulation results for site A000127C using full map and simplified map.

	Number of buildings	Computation time	% reduction in computation time	Mean prediction error	Std. dev. of prediction error
Full map	18050	≈3.5 days	—	—	—
Simplified map (standard method [12])	8706	≈1.5 days	58%	<0.1 dB	<0.1 dB
Simplified map (new method)	1923	≈10 hours	88%	<0.1 dB	<0.1 dB

With respect to full-map prediction.