Next Generation Wireless Terahertz Communication Networks
暫譯: 下一代無線太赫茲通信網絡

本書涵蓋了有關太赫茲頻段通信網絡的最新文獻和調查，從通道模型到網絡層操作，並且還介紹了針對不同太赫茲應用所面臨挑戰的新技術和協議。

Saim Ghafoor received his Ph.D. from University College Cork, Ireland in 2018. He completed his M.S. from Hanyang University, South Korea in 2010 and B.E from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan in 2005. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Computing, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. He worked as a Lecturer in Comsats Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012. He is currently an associate editor in Elsevier, Computer and Electrical Engineering and also serving as a reviewer for many reputable journals and conferences including IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Elsevier Ad hoc Networks, Computer, and Electrical Engineering, Communication Networks and Springer Wireless Networks. He also organized a workshop, IEEE INFOCOM'2019 Workshop on Ultra High Broadband Terahertz Communication for 5G and Beyond Networks (UBTCN). His research interests include Cognitive Radio Networks, Terahertz Communication Networks, Autonomous Networks, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, and high-speed networks.

Mubashir Husain Rehmani (M'14-SM'15) received the B.Eng. degree in computer systems engineering from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan, in 2004, the M.S. degree from the University of Paris XI, Paris, France, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, in 2011. He is currently working as Assistant Lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland. He worked from 2017 to 2018 as Post Doctoral Researcher at the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Waterford, Ireland. He served for five years as an Assistant Professor at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt., Pakistan. He is currently an Area Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He served for three years (from 2015 to 2017) as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), and the Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). He is also serving as a Guest Editor of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems journal, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal. He has authored or edited two books published by IGI Global, USA, one book published by CRC Press, USA, and one book with Wiley, U.K. He received "Best Researcher of the Year 2015 of COMSATS Wah" award in 2015. He received the certificate of appreciation, "Exemplary Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials for the year 2015" from the IEEE Communications Society. He received Best Paper Award from IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM), in IEEE ICC 2017. He consecutively received research productivity award in 2016-17 and also ranked # 1 in all Engineering disciplines from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), Government of Pakistan. He also received Best Paper Award in 2017 from Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan.

He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award in 2018 from the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier). Dr. Rehmani received Highly Cited Researchers awards 2020 by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science). His performance in this context features in the top 1% in the field of Computer Science. Dr. Rehmani is the only researcher from Ireland in the field of "Computer Science" who received this international prestigious award.

Alan Davy was awarded BSc (with honors) in Applied Computing and Ph.D. degrees from Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland in 2002 and 2008 respectively. He has worked at TSSG originally as a student since 2002 and became a PostDoc Researcher in 2008. In 2010 he worked at IIT Madras in India as an assistant professor lecturing in Network Management Systems. He received a Marie Curie international Mobility fellowship in 2010, which brought him to work at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for 2 years. He served as a Senior Research Fellow and Research Unit Manager of the Emerging Networks Laboratory at TSSG. Currently, he is serving as Head of Computing and Mathematics Department at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Dr. Davy is the coordinator of the EU H2020 project TERAPOD: Terahertz based Ultra High Bandwidth Wireless Access Networks.

Saim Ghafoor 於2018年獲得愛爾蘭科克大學的博士學位。他於2010年在南韓漢陽大學獲得碩士學位，並於2005年在巴基斯坦梅赫蘭工程技術大學獲得工程學士學位。目前，他在愛爾蘭萊特肯尼科技學院的計算機系擔任助理講師。之前，他曾在愛爾蘭沃特福德科技學院的TSSG擔任博士後研究員。他於2010年至2012年在COMSATS科技學院擔任講師。他目前是Elsevier《計算機與電氣工程》的副編輯，並擔任多個知名期刊和會議的審稿人，包括IEEE《通信調查與教程》，IEEE《通信雜誌》，IEEE《選定通信領域期刊》，Elsevier《自組網》，《計算機與電氣工程》，《通信網絡》和Springer《無線網絡》。他還組織了IEEE INFOCOM'2019的工作坊，主題為「超高帶寬太赫茲通信在5G及未來網絡中的應用」（UBTCN）。他的研究興趣包括認知無線網絡、太赫茲通信網絡、自主網絡、物聯網、無線感測器網絡和高速網絡。

Mubashir Husain Rehmani (M'14-SM'15) 於2004年在巴基斯坦梅赫蘭工程技術大學獲得計算機系統工程的工程學士學位，於2008年在法國巴黎第十一大學獲得碩士學位，並於2011年在法國皮埃爾與瑪麗居里大學獲得博士學位。他目前在愛爾蘭科克科技學院擔任助理講師。他於2017年至2018年在愛爾蘭沃特福德科技學院的電信軟件與系統小組（TSSG）擔任博士後研究員。他曾在巴基斯坦COMSATS資訊科技學院擔任助理教授五年。目前，他是IEEE《通信調查與教程》的區域編輯。他曾於2015年至2017年擔任IEEE《通信調查與教程》的副編輯。目前，他擔任IEEE《通信雜誌》，Elsevier《網絡與計算機應用期刊》（JNCA）和《通信與網絡期刊》（JCN）的副編輯。他還擔任Elsevier《自組網期刊》，Elsevier《未來一代計算機系統期刊》，IEEE《工業資訊學報》和Elsevier《普遍與移動計算期刊》的客座編輯。他已撰寫或編輯兩本由美國IGI Global出版的書籍，一本由美國CRC Press出版的書籍，以及一本與英國Wiley合作的書籍。他於2015年獲得「COMSATS Wah年度最佳研究者」獎。他獲得IEEE通信學會頒發的「2015年度IEEE《通信調查與教程》模範編輯」感謝證書。他在IEEE ICC 2017中獲得IEEE ComSoc通信系統整合與建模技術委員會（CSIM）的最佳論文獎。他在2016-17年連續獲得研究生產力獎，並在巴基斯坦科學與技術委員會（PCST）中所有工程學科中排名第一。他還於2017年獲得巴基斯坦高等教育委員會（HEC）的最佳論文獎。

他於2018年獲得Elsevier《網絡與計算機應用期刊》的最佳論文獎。Rehmani博士於2020年獲得Clarivate Analytics（Web of Science）頒發的高被引研究者獎。他在此方面的表現位於計算機科學領域的前1%。Rehmani博士是愛爾蘭唯一一位在「計算機科學」領域獲得此國際知名獎項的研究者。

Alan Davy 於2002年和2008年分別在愛爾蘭沃特福德科技學院獲得應用計算的榮譽學士學位和博士學位。他自2002年起在TSSG工作，最初作為學生，並於2008年成為博士後研究員。2010年，他在印度的IIT Madras擔任助理教授，教授網絡管理系統。他於2010年獲得Marie Curie國際流動獎學金，這使他在加泰羅尼亞理工大學工作了兩年。他曾擔任TSSG新興網絡實驗室的高級研究員和研究單位經理。目前，他在愛爾蘭沃特福德科技學院擔任計算與數學系主任。Davy博士是歐盟H2020項目TERAPOD：基於太赫茲的超高帶寬無線接入網絡的協調人。