Nanotechnology is providing the engineering community with a new set of tools to create miniature machines, which has a few cubic micrometers in size, and functions including sensing, actuation, computation, and data storing [1]. A large number of such nanomachines can accomplish more complex tasks collaboratively, with the capability of wireless communications. In light of this direction, nanonetworks, i.e., networks of nanomachines, can enable transformative and promising applications in the biomedical, environmental, security, defense, and consumer fields, as revealed by Akyildiz et al. [2].

Chapter Contents:

• 2.1 Fundamentals of nano-electromagnetic communications
• 2.1.1 Nano-electromagnetic communications in the terahertz band
• 2.1.2 Terahertz-band channel modeling
• 2.1.3 Communication mechanism
• 2.1.4 Network protocols
• 2.2 Applications of nano-electromagnetic communications
• References

Inspec keywords: nanocommunication (telecommunication)

Other keywords: nanomachines; nanotechnology; nanonetworks; cubic micrometers; nanoelectromagnetic communications; transformative applications; wireless communications; engineering community; data storing

Subjects: Acoustic and other telecommunication systems and equipment