THZCOM 2016 - The First Workshop on THz Communications (THZCOM)

The First Workshop on THz Communications (THZCOM)
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Lisbon, Portugal
October 18, 2016
co-located with IEEE technically co-sponsored
The 8th ICUMT 2016
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Proceedings will submitted for indexing by ISI, Scopus, WoS (Web of Science), EI (Compendex and Inspec databases)
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: August 8, 2016 via https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22013&track=81332
Acceptance notification: August 22, 2016
Final paper submission: September 1, 2016
Workshop Co-chairs:
Thomas Kuerner, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Scope
While the focus of the wireless research community is now at mm-waves in the range of 28-73GHz with throughput of several Gbit/s, the Terahertz band, 0.1-10THz, has sufficient resource not only to satisfy the 5G requirements of 10 Gbit/s peak data rate and 1ms latency, but to enable a number of tempting applications, such as fog computing, augmented reality, and holographic communications. However, THz band brings novel challenges, never addressed at lower frequencies, which require rethinking of classic communications paradigms.
The workshop on THZCOM aims to bring together researchers, software and hardware developers from academia and industry, working in the THz communications, to present, share and discuss their latest research results. The produced scientific knowledge will lay the foundations for future multigigabit per second wireless networks in the THz frequency band.
The authors are encouraged to submit full papers (up to 6 pages) describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following list:
Topics of Interest
? Antennas and antenna arrays for THz communications
? Transceivers for THz communications
? Beam forming and beam steering techniques for THz communications
? Channel models for THz communications
? Channel estimation techniques for THz communications
? Waveforms design for THz communications. Impulse vs continuous-wave approaches. THz sub-bands utilization.
? Modulation and coding for THz communications
? Training sequences design for THz communications
? Medium access control for THz communications
? Test beds design and performance characterization of THz communications
? Nodes discovery in THz networks
? Nodes acquisition and tracking in THz networks
? Interference estimation, modeling, and mitigation in THz networks
? THz networks system-level performance evaluation
? Integration of THz communications into networking infrastructure
? Prototyping of THz networks
? Applications for THz communications
? Standardization of THz communications
? Business models for THz communications
? Health and safety analysis of THz band usage