Efficient and reliable ray tracing, some challenges and proposed solutions

Ray tracing has been widely accepted as a versatile and reliable method for indoor propagation modeling. Several published articles have addressed the computational efficiency and reliability as the most challenging problems of ray tracing and have presented various solutions. Such challenges are discussed in this paper and some possible solutions are presented.

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