WTC 2015 - Special Session on Wireless Terahertz Communications

The Special Session on Wireless Terahertz Communications will be held in conjunction with the 15th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband ICUWB’2015 in Montreal, Canada, from October 4th to 7th, 2015.
This special session seeks papers on foundational aspects of wireless terahertz communications, including advanced architectures to terahertz signal processing, terahertz waveguiding and modulation schemes, various advanced device design and development challenges, including also communication challenges such as propagation modeling, capacity analysis and other physical and link layer solutions, in the terahertz frequency range.
In particular, with the recent explosion of mobile technologies, the demand for ultra-fast wireless communication systems is drastically increasing. Television broadcasts, GPS navigation, Bluetooth devices, smartphones and WiFi are all exploiting radio and microwave frequencies and as a consequence, no significant amount of free bandwidth remains available. Thus transition towards higher frequencies, namely the terahertz (THz) range, seems today inevitable. The advantage of exploiting the THz band for wireless applications compared to the more established microwave is straightforward: the data transfer rate through a given channel can be significantly improved by increasing the bandwidth, which can be effectively facilitated with increased carrier frequency. The goal of this special session is to bring together researchers and industrial players from all over the world to a roundtable discussion related to the newest and most exciting achievements in the development and applications of terahertz communication. The different topics will span from cutting edge THz generation/detection techniques, low-loss THz waveguiding, and new solutions for high-speed transceiver architectures to THz signal processing. This special session will outline the communication challenges in terms of channel modeling, physical and network layers functionalities for THz communication networks.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
? CW THz emitters based on ultrafast photodiodes, pulsed THz emitters
? Photoconductive THz receivers (for both pulsed and CW systems)
? Various novel structures for THz generation (high gain antennas)
? Advanced architectures to terahertz signal processing
? Ultra-broadband THz wireless communications
? Ultra high data rates systems of 100 Gbit/s and beyond
? Low-loss THz waveguiding and modulation techniques