HiFiRadio: High-Fidelity Radio Map Reconstruction for 3D Real-World Scenes

The reconstruction of high-fidelity radio maps is pivotal for wireless network planning but remains challenging due to the tension between physical accuracy and computational efficiency. We propose HiFiRadio, a novel framework that achieves a breakthrough in this balance by integrating centimeter-resolution 3D environmental meshes with semantic-aware propagation modeling. At its core, HiFiRadio introduces a semantic-enhanced 3D indexing structure that efficiently manages complex terrain data, enabling real-time classification of signal paths into line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and vegetation-obstructed categories. This classification directly guides a hybrid propagation model, which dynamically applies dedicated loss calculations for buildings and foliage, grounded in physical principles. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HiFiRadio attains an accuracy comparable to commercial ray-tracing tools while being orders of magnitude faster. It also significantly outperforms existing learning-based baselines in both accuracy and scalability, a claim further validated by field measurements. By making high-fidelity, real-time radio map reconstruction practical for large-scale scenes, HiFiRadio establishes a new state of the art with immediate applications in network planning, UAV pathing, and dynamic spectrum access.

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Technologies
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2026-01-12
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https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies14010058
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Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
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HiFiRadio: High-Fidelity Radio Map Reconstruction for 3D Real-World Scenes

Mengyu Ma, Jing Ning, Chen Luo, Yifan Zhang et al.
Technologies
Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
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HiFiRadio: High-Fidelity Radio Map Reconstruction for 3D Real-World Scenes

Mengyu Ma, Jing Ning, Chen Luo, Yifan Zhang, Ke Liao
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Abstract

The reconstruction of high-fidelity radio maps is pivotal for wireless network planning but remains challenging due to the tension between physical accuracy and computational efficiency. We propose HiFiRadio, a novel framework that achieves a breakthrough in this balance by integrating centimeter-resolution 3D environmental meshes with semantic-aware propagation modeling. At its core, HiFiRadio introduces a semantic-enhanced 3D indexing structure that efficiently manages complex terrain data, enabling real-time classification of signal paths into line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and vegetation-obstructed categories. This classification directly guides a hybrid propagation model, which dynamically applies dedicated loss calculations for buildings and foliage, grounded in physical principles. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HiFiRadio attains an accuracy comparable to commercial ray-tracing tools while being orders of magnitude faster. It also significantly outperforms existing learning-based baselines in both accuracy and scalability, a claim further validated by field measurements. By making high-fidelity, real-time radio map reconstruction practical for large-scale scenes, HiFiRadio establishes a new state of the art with immediate applications in network planning, UAV pathing, and dynamic spectrum access.

TechnologiesVol. 14(1)
National University of Defense Technology (CN)
Sustainable cities and communities
Openalex Percentile: Top 90%
Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
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