Modeling and simulation strategies in wireless propagation and coverage planning

This paper presents two-dimensional (2D) user-friendly, tailored with attractive and useful graphical user interfaces (GUI), Matlab propagation packages based on the classical knife-edge model and the parabolic equation method that can handle realistic propagation scenarios with non-flat, arbitrarily-designed and user-selected terrain profiles. Any 2D propagation scenario may be built by the user, and field vs. range and/or height profiles can be simulated.