Abstract-Coverage and achievable rate analysis for indoor terahertz wireless networks

Anamaria Moldovan ;  Prasanth Karunakaran ;  Ian F. Akyildiz ;  Wolfgang H. Gerstacker

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7996402/

With the emergence of numerous novel dataintensive applications, the demand on fast wireless access is experiencing an unprecedented growth. Following this trend, the “Terabit era” is expected to become a reality in the near future. Terahertz technology is promising as an enabler due to its feature of an extremely high bandwidth. However, due to the high carrier frequency along with a high molecular absorption, the transmission distance is limited to a few meters only. In this work, the coverage problem and the achievable data rate performance of indoor THz wireless networks (THz-WNs) are investigated. In order to overcome the severe propagation loss and to improve the transmission range, a single frequency network (SFN) is advocated. The minimum individual user rate for different resource allocation schemes is analyzed, taking into account the effects of inter-symbol interference due to channel dispersion in the THz band and as a consequence of the SFN transmit protocol. Results demonstrate that the proposed SFN scheme is able to provide a high minimum achievable user data rate. The coverage probability increases from 25% when only a single access point (AP) is employed up to 95% when 20 APs are considered, for an output power of 1 W.