A receiver architecture for pulse-based electromagnetic nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4937-4942

  Cid Fuentes, Raul Gomez ^a   Jornet, Josep Miquel ^a   Akyildiz, Ian F ^a,b   Alarcon, Eduard ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SCHEMES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MODULATION SCHEMES; MOVING AVERAGES; NANO-DEVICES; NANO-NETWORKS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE; SYMBOL DETECTION; SYMBOL DETECTOR; SYMBOL ERROR RATE (SER); SYMBOL-DECISION; TERAHERTZ BAND; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; GRAPHENE; MODULATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SIGNAL DETECTION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84871951865     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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