A Parallel Implementation of the Electric Field Integral Equation for an Arbitrary Terrain Profile

Abstract

In this paper a parallel implementation of the Electric Field Integral Equation is introduced. By this means, the otherwise slow computation time of signal coverage over terrain can be cut to an arbitrarily small figure limited only by the number of cores available in the CPU. This makes the algorithm suitable for implementation on a Radio Environment Mapping server to enable coexistence for cognitive radio. The algorithm is tested with twelve cores. An expected linear decrease in computation time with the binary logarithm of the number of cores results.