SUMMARY The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) technique is presented in this paper as an estimation method for radio propagation prediction in large and complex wireless local area network (WLAN) environments. Its validity is shown by comparing measurements and Ray-trace method with FDTD data. The 2GHz (802.lIb/g) and 5GHz (802.lIa) frequency bands are used in both the calculations and exper...

In this letter, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) computed radiation patterns of mobile telephones are carefully compared with those measured in our laboratory. The question on the capability of the FDTD method to correctly predict the radiated electromagnetic fields of today’s structurally complex mobile telephones is addressed. Two commercially available cellular telephones equipped with t...

This paper introduces an automatic tuning method for the tiling parameters required in an implementation of the three-dimensional FDTD method based on time-space tiling. In this tuning process, an appropriate range for the tile size is first determined by trial experiments using cubic tiles. The tile shape is then optimized by using the Monte Carlo method. The tiled FDTD kernel was multi-thread...

The paper proposes an efficient method to analyze the response of periodic structures to non-periodic excitations in the time domain, employing the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. To that end, the array-scanning method, which has been previously associated with frequency-domain, integral formulations of periodic structure problems, is translated into the context of FDTD. Hence, the...

A hybrid transfer-matrix finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is proposed for modeling the optical properties of finite-width planar periodic structures. This method can also be applied for calculation of the photonic bands in infinite photonic crystals. We describe the procedure of evaluating the transfer-matrix elements by a special numerical FDTD simulation. The accuracy of the new me...

we have designed a new type of optical channel drop filter (cdf) based on two dimensionaltriangular lattice photonic crystals. cdf operation is based on coupling to the photonic crystalwaveguide. the proposed structure is optimized to work as a cdf for obtaining the cdfcharacteristics and band structure of the filter the finite difference time domain (fdtd) method andplane wave expansion (pwe) ...

The traditional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is constrained by the Courant–Friedrich–Levy condition and suffers from notorious staircase error in electromagnetic simulations. This article proposes a 3-D conformal locally one-dimensional FDTD (CLOD-FDTD) to address two issues for modeling perfectly electrical conducting (PEC) objects. By considering partially filled cells, propose...

A hybrid method for analysis of electromagnetic propagation in large unbounded wave structures is presented. This method is a combination of Gaussian Beam Tracing (GBT), Gabor Expansion and the Finite Difference Time Domain method (FDTD). The input field is first expanded into a sum of Gaussian Beams (GBs) using the Gabor Expansion. The resultant GBs are launched inside the system and traced us...

Abstract This is a tutorial paper on the basics and applications of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Two types discretization linear governing equations, scalar-type FDTD method vector-type one, are first discussed. Then basic concept compact explicit-FDTD (CE-FDTD) described. By considering relationship between cutoff frequency computer resources, it shown that interpolated wide ba...