TY - JOUR
T1 - A Tutorial on Terahertz-Band Localization for 6G Communication Systems
AU - Chen, Hui
AU - Sarieddeen, Hadi
AU - Ballal, Tarig
AU - Wymeersch, Henk
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
AU - Al-Naffouri, Tareq Y.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-05-30
Acknowledgements: This work was supported, in part, by the European Commission through the H2020 project Hexa-X (Grant Agreement no. 101015956).
PY - 2022/5/26
Y1 - 2022/5/26
N2 - Terahertz (THz) communications are celebrated as key enablers for converged localization and sensing in future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems and beyond. Instead of being a byproduct of the communication system, localization in 6G is indispensable for location-aware communications. Towards this end, we aim to identify the prospects, challenges, and requirements of THz localization techniques. We first review the history and trends of localization methods and discuss their objectives, constraints, and applications in contemporary communication systems. We then detail the latest advances in THz communications and introduce THz-specific channel and system models. Afterward, we formulate THz-band localization as a 3D position/orientation estimation problem, detailing geometry-based localization techniques and describing potential THz localization and sensing extensions. We further formulate the offline design and online optimization of THz localization systems, provide numerical simulation results, and conclude by providing lessons learned and future research directions. Preliminary results illustrate that under the same transmission power and array footprint, THz-based localization outperforms millimeter wave-based localization. In other words, the same level of localization performance can be achieved at THz-band with less transmission power or a smaller footprint.
AB - Terahertz (THz) communications are celebrated as key enablers for converged localization and sensing in future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems and beyond. Instead of being a byproduct of the communication system, localization in 6G is indispensable for location-aware communications. Towards this end, we aim to identify the prospects, challenges, and requirements of THz localization techniques. We first review the history and trends of localization methods and discuss their objectives, constraints, and applications in contemporary communication systems. We then detail the latest advances in THz communications and introduce THz-specific channel and system models. Afterward, we formulate THz-band localization as a 3D position/orientation estimation problem, detailing geometry-based localization techniques and describing potential THz localization and sensing extensions. We further formulate the offline design and online optimization of THz localization systems, provide numerical simulation results, and conclude by providing lessons learned and future research directions. Preliminary results illustrate that under the same transmission power and array footprint, THz-based localization outperforms millimeter wave-based localization. In other words, the same level of localization performance can be achieved at THz-band with less transmission power or a smaller footprint.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/678277
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9782674/
U2 - 10.1109/comst.2022.3178209
DO - 10.1109/comst.2022.3178209
M3 - Article
SN - 1553-877X
SP - 1
EP - 1
JO - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
JF - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
ER -