TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate Change Sensing through Terahertz Communication Infrastructure
T2 - A Disruptive Application of 6G Networks
AU - Wedage, Lasantha Thakshila
AU - Butler, Bernard
AU - Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan
AU - Koucheryavy, Yevgeni
AU - Jornet, Josep M.
AU - Vuran, Mehmet C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
IEEE
PY - 2023/10/6
Y1 - 2023/10/6
N2 - Climate change resulting from releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere continues to affect the Earth’s ecosystem. This pressing issue is driving the development of novel technologies to sense and measure harmful gas emissions. In parallel, the evolution of wireless communication networks requires the wider deployment of mobile telecommunication infrastructure. The terahertz (THz) spectrum is currently under-utilized but is expected to feature in 6G. The use of this spectrum is explored simultaneously for ultra-broadband communication and atmospheric sensing. For atmospheric sensing, the absorption of THz signals by gas molecules is used to estimate atmospheric gas composition. Molecular absorption loss profiles for each gas isotopologue are taken from the HITRAN database and compared with data from transceivers in sensing mode. Preliminary results are presented, showing the effects of signal path loss and power spectral density. A 6G network architecture is proposed to indicate how 6G infrastructure can perform climate change sensing, in addition to its primary purpose of wireless communication.
AB - Climate change resulting from releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere continues to affect the Earth’s ecosystem. This pressing issue is driving the development of novel technologies to sense and measure harmful gas emissions. In parallel, the evolution of wireless communication networks requires the wider deployment of mobile telecommunication infrastructure. The terahertz (THz) spectrum is currently under-utilized but is expected to feature in 6G. The use of this spectrum is explored simultaneously for ultra-broadband communication and atmospheric sensing. For atmospheric sensing, the absorption of THz signals by gas molecules is used to estimate atmospheric gas composition. Molecular absorption loss profiles for each gas isotopologue are taken from the HITRAN database and compared with data from transceivers in sensing mode. Preliminary results are presented, showing the effects of signal path loss and power spectral density. A 6G network architecture is proposed to indicate how 6G infrastructure can perform climate change sensing, in addition to its primary purpose of wireless communication.
KW - 6G
KW - 6G mobile communication
KW - Atmospheric measurements
KW - atmospheric sensing
KW - Broadband communication
KW - climate change
KW - Climate change
KW - Disruptive technologies
KW - Greenhouse effect
KW - Sensors
KW - Terahertz communication
KW - Terahertz communications
KW - Wireless communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174851117&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/mnet.2023.3321523
DO - 10.1109/mnet.2023.3321523
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85174851117
SN - 0890-8044
JO - IEEE Network
JF - IEEE Network
ER -
