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This paper presents a comprehensive quantitative comparison between Terahertz (THz) communication (TeraCom) and optical wireless communication (OWC) technologies, focusing on both indoor and outdoor environments. We propose a comparison…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Mingqing Liu , Hossein Kazemi , Majid Safari , Iman Tavakkolnia , Harald Haas

Terahertz (THz) communications (THzCom) has experienced a meteoric rise of interest, due to its benefits for ultra-high data rate transmission in the sixth generation (6G) and beyond era. Despite so, the research on exploring the potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Nan Yang , Akram Shafie

Terahertz communication offers vast bandwidth for high-speed transmission in the 6G networks but faces severe blockage challenges in the near-field region due to large antenna arrays. To overcome the limitation that near-field focused beams…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Xinyuan Hu , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

Terahertz (THz) communications have emerged as a promising candidate to support the heavy data traffic and exploding network capacity in the future 6G wireless networks. However, THz communications are facing many challenges for practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning , Chong Han , Zhongbao Tian , Shaoqian Li

Terahertz (THz) band communications are envisioned as a key technology for 6G and Beyond. As a fundamental wireless infrastructure, THz communication can boost abundant promising applications. In 2014, our team published two comprehensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Ian F. Akyildiz , Chong Han , Zhifeng Hu , Shuai Nie , Josep M. Jornet

With the enlargement of antenna apertures in 6G Terahertz (THz) communications, the Rayleigh distance expands significantly, rendering near-field propagation a dominant scenario in THz links. Beyond conventional Line-of-Sight (LoS) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Wenqi Zhao , Chong Han

Terahertz (THz) band owning the abundant multi-ten-GHz bandwidth is capable to support Terabit-per-second wireless communications, which is a pillar technology for 6G and beyond systems. With sub-millimeter-long antennas, ultra-massive (UM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Chong Han , Yuhang Chen , Longfei Yan , Zhi Chen , Linglong Dai

Terahertz (THz) communication is considered one of the most critical technologies for 6G because of its abundant bandwidth. To compensate the high propagation of THz, analog/digital hybrid precoding for THz massive multiple input multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yang Wang , Chuang Yang , Mugen Peng

Terahertz (THz) communication is a key enabler for 6G systems, offering ultra-wide bandwidth and unprecedented data rates. However, THz signal propagation differs significantly from lower-frequency bands due to severe free space path loss,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 John Song , Lihao Zhang , Feng Ye , Haijian Sun

Terahertz (THz) communications are celebrated as key enablers for converged localization and sensing in future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems and beyond. Instead of being a byproduct of the communication system,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Hui Chen , Hadi Sarieddeen , Tarig Ballal , Henk Wymeersch , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

The unprecedented increase in wireless data traffic, predicted to occur within the next decade, is motivating academia and industries to look beyond contemporary wireless standards and conceptualize the sixth-generation (6G) wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Akram Shafie , Nan Yang , Chong Han , Josep Miquel Jornet , Markku Juntti , Thomas Kurner

TeraHertz (THz) communications are envisioned as a promising technology, owing to its unprecedented multi-GHz bandwidth. In this paper, wideband channel measurement campaigns at 140 GHz and 220 GHz are conducted in indoor scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jia He , Yi Chen , Yiqin Wang , Ziming Yu , Chong Han

Although Terahertz communication systems can provide high data rates, it needs high directional beamforming at transmitters and receivers to achieve such rates over a long distance. Therefore, an efficient beam training method is vital to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Songjie Yang , Zhongpei Zhang , Zhenzhen Hu , Nuan Song , Hao Liu

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

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) aided terahertz (THz) communication system is proposed. A novel power consumption model is proposed that depends on the type and resolution of the STARS elements. The spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu

Terahertz (THz) communication systems suffer severe blockage issues, which may significantly degrade the communication coverage and quality. Bending beams, capable of adjusting their propagation direction to bypass obstacles, have recently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Aoran Liu , Weidong Mei , Peilan Wang , Dong Wang , Ya Fei Wu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

Terahertz (THz) systems have the benefit of high bandwidth and hence are capable of supporting ultra-high data rates, albeit at the cost of high pathloss. Hence they tend to harness high-gain beamforming. Therefore a novel hybrid 3D…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Xufang Wang , Zihuai Lin , Feng Lin , Lajos Hanzo , Life Fellow

Terahertz (THz)-band communications are a key enabler for future-generation wireless communications systems that promise to integrate a wide range of data-demanding applications. Recent advances in photonic, electronic, and plasmonic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Hadi Sarieddeen , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

For decades, the terahertz (THz) frequency band had been primarily explored in the context of radar, imaging, and spectroscopy, where multi-gigahertz (GHz) and even THz-wide channels and the properties of terahertz photons offered…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Josep M. Jornet , Vitaly Petrov , Hua Wang , Zoya Popovic , Dipankar Shakya , Jose V. Siles , Theodore S. Rappaport

Terahertz (THz) communication is widely considered as a key enabler for future 6G wireless systems. However, THz links are subject to high propagation losses and inter-symbol interference due to the frequency selectivity of the channel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Konstantinos Dovelos , Michail Matthaiou , Hien Quoc Ngo , Boris Bellalta