Intro
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Evolution of Wireless Communication
1.2 Sixth-Generation Wireless Communication Systems
1.2.1 Key Performance Indicators
1.2.2 Enabling Technologies
1.2.3 Terahertz Wave Challenges for Sixth-Generation
1.2.4 Features of Terahertz Wave for Wireless Communication
1.2.5 Pillars of Sixth-Generation
1.2.6 Sixth-Generation Roadmap Timeline
1.3 Organization of the Book
1.4 Summary
References
Chapter 2: Terahertz Wireless Communication Systems

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Wireless Communication Systems
2.3 Ways to Generate Terahertz Radiation
2.3.1 Electronic Solid-State Sources
2.3.2 Photonics Solid-State Sources
2.3.3 Vacuum Tubes Sources
2.4 Terahertz Transceiver Design Concepts
2.5 Terahertz Transmitter Design Concepts
2.5.1 High-Speed Analog to Digital Converter Design Concepts
2.5.2 Modulator Design Concepts
2.5.3 Upconverter Mixer Design Concepts
2.5.4 High Power Amplifier Design Concepts
2.6 Terahertz Antenna Design Concepts
2.7 Terahertz Receiver Design Concepts

2.7.1 Low Noise Amplifier Design Concepts
2.7.2 Downconverter Mixer Design Concepts
2.7.3 Demodulator Design Concepts
2.7.4 High-Speed Digital to Analog Converter Design Concepts
2.8 Terahertz High-Rate Physical-Layer Design Concepts
2.9 Open Research Challenges
2.10 Summary
References
Chapter 3: Terahertz Communication: Standardization, Channel Modeling, and Link-Budget
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Terahertz Wireless Communication Standardizations
3.3 Terahertz Wireless Communication Potential Applications
3.3.1 Terahertz Chip-to-Chip Wireless Communication

3.3.2 Terahertz Wireless Local Area Network
3.3.3 Terahertz Wireless Personal Area Network
3.3.4 Terahertz Wireless Kiosk Downloading
3.3.5 Terahertz Wireless Connections Through Servers Inside a Data Center
3.3.6 Terahertz Backhauling and Fronthaul for Macro and Small Cell Wireless Communications
3.3.7 Terahertz Airborne and Inter-Satellite Wireless Communications
3.3.8 Terahertz Autonomous Vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Wireless Communications
3.3.9 Terahertz Nano-Cells Wireless Communication
3.4 Terahertz Wireless Communication Channel Properties

3.4.1 The Friss Free-Space Path Loss
3.4.2 Atmospheric Gas Effect Attenuations
3.4.3 Weather Effect Attenuations
3.4.4 Blockage
3.4.5 Diffraction
3.4.6 Scattering and Reflection
3.4.7 Doppler Frequency Shift
3.4.8 Delay Spread
3.5 Terahertz Wireless Communication Channel Modeling
3.5.1 Deterministic Model
3.5.2 Stochastic Model
3.5.3 Terahertz Channel Simulators
3.6 Terahertz Link-Budget
3.7 Open Research Challenges
3.8 Summary
References
Chapter 4: Terahertz Antenna Technologies for 6G Communication Systems
4.1 Introduction