Remcom will be exhibiting at this year’s MILCOM conference, November 17-19 in San Diego, CA. We have several exciting announcements for the event:

Two Remcom-authored papers featured in the Modeling Tools & Techniques Session

Ruth Belmonte will present “A Comparison of Near Earth Propagation Over Layered Media,” by Ruth Belmonte, Stephen Fast, and Joseph Schuster:

Today’s military works in a complex electromagnetic arena. IED jammers and UGS systems are examples where propagation is very near to the ground, and the interaction of signals with the earth can unintentionally alter propagation. In these scenarios the direct and reflected waves tend to cancel one another, causing the surface wave component to be the dominant mode of propagation. This surface wave must be taken into account in order to correctly model propagation of radio waves in these cases. Many methods of studying propagation do not incorporate the effects of subterranean layers of different materials. This paper demonstrates that subterranean layers can greatly impact near earth propagation. Radio propagation predictions made by Norton, XFdtd^®, and the moving window finite difference time domain (MWFDTD®) methods are used to analyze propagation for near-ground antennas over various types of layered media.

Ron Eichenlaub will present “Fidelity at High Speed: Wireless InSite^® Real Time Module,” by Ronald Eichenlaub, Clark Valentine, Stephen Fast, and Sam Albarano:

For predictions of vehicle-to-vehicle communications, convoy communications, and Improvised Electronic Device (IED) detection/defense operations, Remcom's Wireless InSite Real Time Module (RT Module) provides a very rapid propagation prediction capability in urban environments. Previous models are either empirical and inaccurate but fast, or deterministic and high-fidelity but slow. The RT Module takes the best of both; it is deterministic and provides higher-fidelity results than empirical models and is much faster than full physics-based models, returning a point-to-point result in milliseconds. It is also free of the spatial limits of empirical models and allows user-defined mobile objects to be placed into the urban scene and rapidly repositioned without expensive reloading of geometry. The C++ API permits developers to quickly integrate the RT capability into their Tactical Decision Aides (TDAs) and other graphical visualization tools. This paper will show how the RT Module can be used to provide accurate communication and jamming predictions for mission planning tools in near real time.

Preview of XFdtd 7.0

We will be previewing some of the new features that are coming in our next version of XFdtd, scheduled to be available in early 2009, at our booth at MILCOM (booth #1516).

If you are attending the event, please visit our booth where technical engineers will be on hand to demonstrate the capabilities of the new software and discuss your specific needs.

You can also see several feature highlights here: http://www.remcom.com/xfdtd-7.0-preview-at-european-microwave-week.html

We look forward to meeting you at MILCOM!