Toward Location-aware In-body Terahertz Nanonetworks with Energy Harvesting
Abstract
Nanoscale wireless networks are expected to revolutionize a variety of domains, with significant advances conceivable in in-body healthcare. In healthcare, these nanonetworks will consist of energy-harvesting nanodevices passively flowing through the bloodstream, taking actions at certain locations, and communicating results to more powerful Body Area Network (BAN) nodes. Assuming such a setup and electromagnetic nanocommunication in the Terahertz (THz) frequencies, we propose a network architecture that can support fine-grained localization of the energy-harvesting in-body nanonodes, as well as their two-way communication with the outside world. The main novelties of our proposal lie in the introduction of location-aware and Wake-up Radio (WuR)-based wireless nanocommunication paradigms, as well as Software-Defined Metamaterials (SDMs), to THz-operating energy-harvesting in-body nanonetworks. We argue that, on a high level, the proposed architecture can handle (and actually benefits from) a large number of nanonodes, while simultaneously dealing with a short range of THz in-body propagation and highly constrained nanonodes.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2101.01952
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2101.01952
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv210101952L
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Emerging Technologies;
- Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table