Ubiquitous computing techniques for two dimensional transmission line matrix method

The pervasiveness of handheld and mobile devices with sophisticated user interfaces and processing hardware has opened the door of ubiquitous computing to electromagnetic field modeling software. This paper reports our first implementation of the two-dimensional shunt-node Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) algorithm for Windows 8.1, a newly released operating environment that can run on a spectrum of computing hardware, from handheld devices (smart phones and small tablet pc), to laptop and desktop computers, and all the way to state-of-the-art engineering workstations. The ubiquitous computing strategy and modelling framework in this two-dimensional TLM software package can thus be used to harness computing power from a wide variety of computing hardware for electromagnetic field modelling.