TY - GEN
T1 - Multiple antenna techniques for terahertz nano-bio communication
AU - Abdelaziz, Aya
AU - Yang, Ke
AU - Qaraqe, Khalid
AU - Boutros, Joseph
AU - Abbasi, Qammer H.
AU - Alomainy, Akram
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - Using higher frequency bands becomes an essential demand resulting from the explosive wireless traffic needs and the spectrum shortage of the currently used bands. This paper presents an overview on the terahertz technology and its application in the area of multi-input multi-output antenna system and in-vivo nano-communication. In addition, it presents a preliminary study on applying multiple input-single output (MISO) antenna technique to investigate the signal propagation and antenna diversity techniques inside the human skin tissues, which is represented by three layers: stratum corneum (SC), epidermis, and dermis layers, in the terahertz (THz) frequency range (0.8-1.2) THz. The spatial antenna diversity is investigated in this study to understand MISO system performance for two different in-vivo channels resulting from the signal propagation between two transmitting antennas, located at the dermis layer, and one receiving antenna, located at epidermis layer. Three techniques are investigated: selection combining (SC), equal-gain combing (EGC), and maximum-ratio combining (MRC). The initial study indicates that using multiple antenna technique with THz might be not useful for in-vivo nano-communication.
AB - Using higher frequency bands becomes an essential demand resulting from the explosive wireless traffic needs and the spectrum shortage of the currently used bands. This paper presents an overview on the terahertz technology and its application in the area of multi-input multi-output antenna system and in-vivo nano-communication. In addition, it presents a preliminary study on applying multiple input-single output (MISO) antenna technique to investigate the signal propagation and antenna diversity techniques inside the human skin tissues, which is represented by three layers: stratum corneum (SC), epidermis, and dermis layers, in the terahertz (THz) frequency range (0.8-1.2) THz. The spatial antenna diversity is investigated in this study to understand MISO system performance for two different in-vivo channels resulting from the signal propagation between two transmitting antennas, located at the dermis layer, and one receiving antenna, located at epidermis layer. Three techniques are investigated: selection combining (SC), equal-gain combing (EGC), and maximum-ratio combining (MRC). The initial study indicates that using multiple antenna technique with THz might be not useful for in-vivo nano-communication.
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U2 - 10.1109/MECBME.2018.8402408
DO - 10.1109/MECBME.2018.8402408
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050010175
T3 - Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME
SP - 67
EP - 71
BT - 4th IEEE Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2018
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 4th IEEE Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2018
Y2 - 28 March 2018 through 30 March 2018
ER -