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Low Computational Cost Mirror Kirchhoff Approximation for Predicting Shadowing Effect

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Xin Du *
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Jun‐ichi Takada
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3155547delete
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This paper proposes a 2-dimensional low computational cost mirror Kirchhoff approximation (MKA) and the design of simulation parameters to accurately predict the shadowing gain for an arbitrarily shaped conductor cylinder. The disadvantages of the conventional MKA, such as lacking designs for the simulation parameters and a limited applicable range, have motivated the establishment of an extended MKA. The authors propose the design of the simulation parameters for MKA. The applicable range of MKA is extended to an arbitrarily shaped cylinder by multiple planes. This work finds that only the space domain of the zeroth plane and the angular spectrum domain of the last plane need separate windowing functions for accuracy and the calculation time. The details of those windowing functions are introduced, and their necessities are explained. The authors validate the proposed method for an elliptical conductor cylinder with the size of the human body at millimeter waves (17 GHz - 66.5 GHz). Simulations are conducted by changing the object's location, direction, and frequencies. The results show that the proposed method presents a good accuracy, which has a low root-mean-square error of less than 0.5 dB by comparing it with a full-wave approach based on the method of moment. Furthermore, the calculation time is improved by 1.4 - 67.2 times by comparing it with the uniform theory of diffraction using special functions.
Keywords:
Shadow mapping
Scattering
Computational modeling
Computational efficiency
Diffraction
Predictive models
Mathematical models
Arbitrarily shaped cylinder
fast method
millimeter wave
mirror Kirchhoff approximation
shadowing effect
windowing function

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IEEE Access cover
IEEE Access
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Institute of Science Tokyo
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