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MIMO-Terahertz in 6G Nano-Communications: Channel Modeling and Analysis

Shahid Bashir¹, Mohammed H. Alsharif², Imran Khan³, Mahmoud A. Albreem⁴, Aduwati Sali⁵, Borhanuddin Mohd Ali⁵, Wonjong Noh^6,*

1 Business Studies Department, Namal Institute, Mianwali, 42250, Pakistan
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, South Korea
3 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Peshawar, 814, Pakistan
4 Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, College of Engineering, A’Sharqiyah University, Ibra, Oman
5 Wireless and Photonics Networks Research Centre of Excellence, Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Unversiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, 43400, Malaysia
6 School of Software, Hallym University, Hallymdaehak-gil, Chunchoen-si, 24252, South Korea

* Corresponding Author: Wonjong Noh. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2021, 66(1), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.012404

Received 29 June 2020; Accepted 21 July 2020; Issue published 30 October 2020

Abstract

With the development of wireless mobile communication technology, the demand for wireless communication rate and frequency increases year by year. Existing wireless mobile communication frequency tends to be saturated, which demands for new solutions. Terahertz (THz) communication has great potential for the future mobile communications (Beyond 5G), and is also an important technique for the high data rate transmission in spatial information network. THz communication has great application prospects in military-civilian integration and coordinated development. In China, important breakthroughs have been achieved for the key techniques of THz high data rate communications, which is practically keeping up with the most advanced technological level in the world. Therefore, further intensifying efforts on the development of THz communication have the strategic importance for China in leading the development of future wireless communication techniques and the standardization process of Beyond 5G. This paper analyzes the performance of the MIMO channel in the Terahertz (THz) band and a discrete mathematical method is used to propose a novel channel model. Then, a channel capacity model is proposed by the combination of path loss and molecular absorption in the THz band based on the CSI at the receiver. Simulation results show that the integration of MIMO in the THz band gives better data rate and channel capacity as compared with a single channel.

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