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Accelerated by the increasing attention drawn by 5G, 6G, and Internet of Things applications, communication and sensing technologies have rapidly evolved from millimeter-wave (mmWave) to terahertz (THz) in recent years. Enabled by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Josiah W. Smith , Murat Torlak

Terahertz (THz) band is considered a promising candidate to meet the high-throughput requirement for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications due to its ultrawide bandwidth. However, due to the high penetration loss at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Caihao Weng , Yuqing Guo , Bowen Zhao , Ying Wang , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li

Energy efficiency is an important performance measure of wireless network protocols, especially for battery-powered mobile devices such as smartphones. This paper presents a new energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) scheme for fully…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 K. Rahimi Malekshan , W. Zhuang , Y. Lostanlen

This paper presents the vision of multi-band communication networks (MBN) in 6G, where optical and TeraHertz (THz) transmissions will coexist with the conventional radio frequency (RF) spectrum. This paper will first pin-point the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mohammad Amin Saeidi , Hina Tabassum , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we develop a novel analytical framework for a three-dimensional (3D) indoor terahertz (THz) communication system. Our proposed model incorporates more accurate modeling of wall blockages via Manhattan line processes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Salman Durrani , Xiangyun Zhou , Markku Juntti , Josep Miquel Jornet

Terahertz waves offer numerous advantages for the nondestructive detection of hidden objects/defects in materials, as they can penetrate through most optically-opaque materials. However, existing terahertz inspection systems are restricted…

Ray tracing is a versatile approach for precise sub-terahertz (sub-THz, 100-300 GHz) channel modeling when designing new mechanisms for beyond-6G cellular systems. Theoretically, wireless channels may exhibit variations over wavelength…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Hossein Amininasab , Huda Farooqui , Dmitri Moltchanov , Sergey Andreev , Michele Polese , Mikko Valkama , Josep M. Jornet

The ever-growing demand for ultra-high data rates, massive connectivity, and joint communication-sensing capabilities in future wireless networks is driving research into sub-terahertz (sub-THz) communications. While these frequency bands…

In the evolving landscape of terahertz communication, the behavior of channels within indoor environments, particularly through glass doors, has garnered significant attention. This paper comprehensively investigates terahertz channel…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-06 Da Li , Wenbo Liu , Menghan Wei , Jiacheng Liu , Guohao Liu , Peian Li , Houjun Sun , Jianjun Ma

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted full-duplex (FD) terahertz (THz) communication systems have emerged as a promising paradigm to satisfy the escalating demand for ultra-high data rates and spectral efficiency in future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Chi Qiu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Fen Hou , Wanming Hao , Ruiqi Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The computing speeds in modern multi-core processors and big data servers are no longer limited by the on-chip transistor density that doubles every two years following the Moores law, but are limited by the on-chip data communication…

Despite such challenges as high path loss and equipment cost, THz communication is becoming one of the potentially viable means through which ultra-high data rate can be achieved. To compensate for the high path loss, we present parameter…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Rohit Singh , Douglas Sicker

This paper presents a survey of energy efficiency of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs). We highlight the features of MAC protocols along with their advantages and limitations in context of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-12 S. Hayat , N. Javaid , Z. A. Khan , A. Shareef , A. Mahmood , S. H. Bouk

Sub-6GHz vehicular communications (using DSRC, ITS-G5 or C-V2X) have been developed to support active safety applications. Future connected and automated driving applications can require larger bandwidth and higher data rates than currently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Baldomero Coll-Perales , Javier Gozalvez , Marco Gruteser

Wireless communications along with the Internet has been the most transformative technology in the past 50 years. We expect that wireless data growth driven by new mobile applications, need to connect all humankind (not just 1/3) as well as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Farooq Khan

Cell-free network architecture plays a promising role in the terahertz (THz) networks since it provides better link reliability and uniformly good services for all the users compared to the co-located massive MIMO counterpart, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zesheng Zhu , Lifeng Wang , Xin Wang , Bo Tan , Shi Jin

The current development of 5G networks represents a breakthrough in the design of communication networks, for its ability to provide a single platform enabling a variety of different services, from enhanced mobile broadband communications,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa , José Luis Gonzalez-Jimenez , Dimitri Kténas , Nicolas Cassiau , Cédric Dehos

All-dielectric effective-medium-clad waveguides have been widely exploited in terahertz communications owing to their extremely low loss, low dispersion, and broad bandwidth. In this work, we propose a substrateless effective-medium-slot…

As the spectrum is becoming more scarce due to exponential demand of formidable data quantities, the new millimiterwave (mmW) band is considered as an enabling player of 5G communications to provide multi-gigabits wireless acccess. MmW…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Gabor Fodor , Georgios Athanasiou

Using metasurfaces to control the wave propagation at will has been very successful over the broad electromagnetic spectrum in recent years. By encoding specially designed abrupt changes of electromagnetic parameters into metasurfaces, such…