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1st November - Radioplan, the German RF simulation
and automatic optimization specialist, today announced that
a new student edition of their state-of-the-art Radiowave
Propagation Simulator (RPS) will be made available for download
free of charge with immediate effect from www.radioplan.com.
Radioplan's RPS Student is a fully-functional
version of RPS, allowing students free access to study RF
propagation in small radio environments using the full set
of tools available to the professional user. RPS can be used
to generate simulations of small indoor and outdoor radio
environments such as WLAN, WIMAX, Mesh, UMTS, and CMDA2000,
allowing users to investigate the effects of penetration,
reflection, diffraction, polarization and antenna configuration.
"Radioplan was founded by radio engineering
students, and we would like to give the next generation of
RF engineers the chance to use the same suite of tools that
they will find in use in industry", said Johannes Huebner,
Radioplan's Executive Manager. "Our toolsets are trusted to
provide simulation and optimization results to dozens of the
world's largest mobile operators, equipment vendors and R&D
organizations, and we hope that early experience with the
full functionality of these advanced tools will open many
new employment and research opportunities for future radio
engineers".
RPS uses sophisticated ray launching algorithms
to predict the precise performance of radio channels, an approach
that has several advantages over other algorithms, making
it the best choice for high performance propagation prediction,
accurate coverage results, and the teaching of best practises.
RPS Student can be upgraded to allow unlimited parallelization
for more in depth research needs - one reference installation
consists of a fully-equipped 56 processor blade server, each
running a separate prediction engine.
RPS has an integrated Environment Editor with
layer support, plug-in support for custom propagation models,
surface plots, and post-processing applications, and can import
environment data from dozens of source CAD formats. RPS also
has several built-in 2D/3D surface plot functions that provide
overviews of a wide variety of results, including:-
. coverage
. direction of arrival
. received signal strength
. delay spread
. best serving transmitter
. signal-to-interference ratio
. site-specific channel impulse responses
. angles-of-arrival polar chart plots
. PDF and CDF analysis functions
. user-defined MatlabT plug-ins allow extension of analysis
functions without limitation.
RPS Student comes complete with several sample
environments, allowing educators to provide a complete virtual
RF laboratory to radio engineering students immediately, and
a full user manual, with tutorials on a wide variety of RF
propagation subjects. Sample environments include:-
. Simple indoor
. Pico indoor
. Suburban outdoor
. Urban outdoor
RPS Student can be downloaded free-of-charge
immediately from www.radioplan.com.
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