A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Communication in Context of Molecular Communication and Terahertz Communication for Body-Centri
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOLECULAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND MULTI-SCALE COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 6, NO. 2, NOVEMBER 2020 107 A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Communication in Context of Molecular Communication and Terahertz Communication for Body-Centric Nanonetworks Ke Yang ,DadiBi,Student Member, IEEE, Yansha Deng , Member, IEEE, Rui Zhang, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Member, IEEE, Najah Abu Ali , Muhammad Ali Imran , Senior Member, IEEE, Josep Miquel Jornet ,QammerH.Abbasi , and Akram Alomainy , Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—With the huge advancement of nanotechnology over communications are widely considered as two main promising the past years, the devices are shrinking into micro-scale, even paradigms and both follow their own development process. In nano-scale. Additionally, the Internet of nano-things (IoNTs) are this survey, the recent developments of these two paradigms are generally regarded as the ultimate formation of the current sen- first illustrated in the aspects of applications, network structures, sor networks and the development of nanonetworks would be modulation techniques, coding techniques and security to then of great help to its fulfilment, which would be ubiquitous with investigate the potential of hybrid communication paradigms. numerous applications in all domains of life. However, the com- Meanwhile, the enabling technologies have been presented to munication between the devices in such nanonetworks is still apprehend the state-of-art with the discussion on the possibility an open problem. Body-centric nanonetworks are believed to of the hybrid technologies. Additionally, the inter-connectivity of play an essential role in the practical application of IoNTs. electromagnetic and molecular body-centric nanonetworks is dis- BCNNs are also considered as domain specific like wireless sensor cussed.
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