Mobile Near-Field Thz Communications: Towards Omnidirectional Receivers? Conference

Honan, B, Osmond, J, Sen, P et al. (2026). Mobile Near-Field Thz Communications: Towards Omnidirectional Receivers? . 968-973. 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit68295.2026.11577453

cited authors

  • Honan, B; Osmond, J; Sen, P; Madanayake, A; Singh, A

authors

abstract

  • This paper presents an experimentally validated characterization of mobile terahertz (THz) communication systems in the massive near-field. Gaussian Beams are utilized to evaluate near-field beamforming with electromagnetic wave theory. It is shown that the Friis path loss does not hold for broadside setups, and the physics of near-field THz wireless results in asymmetrical channels for the up-link or down-link systems. Further, it shown that the effect of the receiver size drastically determines the angular resilience of THz wireless links, while the size of the transmitter drastically effects the multipath effects. As such, a communication system which has a large transmitter and a small receiver is determined to have huge pay-offs for resilient THz communications in the future generation of wireless networks.

publication date

  • January 1, 2026

start page

  • 968

end page

  • 973