An energy efficient modulation scheme for body-centric nano-communications in the THz band

Vavouris, Apostolos K. and Dervisi, Foteini D. and Papanikolaou, Vasilis K. and Karagiannidis, George K.; (2018) An energy efficient modulation scheme for body-centric nano-communications in the THz band. In: 2018 7th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies, MOCAST 2018. 2018 7th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies, MOCAST 2018 . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., GRC, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9781538647882 (https://doi.org/10.1109/MOCAST.2018.8376563)

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Abstract

In body-centric communications, energy efficiency is the most critical parameter, while the maximum achievable data rate is not of primary concern. In this paper we present a novel modulation scheme, which can be efficiently used in body-centric terahertz (THz) nanonetworks. This scheme is a combination of the time-spread On-Off keying (TS-OOK) and the pulse position modulation (PPM). The new modulation scheme presents lower energy consumption levels at a small cost to the achievable data rate. Furthermore, another important aspect is that, due to the nature of noise in THz communications, the proposed modulation is affected in a much smaller way by the noise. Finally, we present analytical and simulation results in order to compare the new scheme with TS-OOK.

  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:80036
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    11 June 2018
    Published
    9 May 2018
    Published Online
    2 March 2018
    Accepted
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    Subjects:Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:01 Apr 2022 11:08
    Last modified:08 Apr 2024 14:12
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80036
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