IEEE Best Paper Award for Terahertz Band Communication Research
ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet’s research on “Terahertz Band Communication: An Old Problem Revisited and Research Directions for the Next Decade” received the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, which will be presented at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2025. This award honors the author(s) of an especially meritorious paper published in the past five years in a ComSoc owned journal dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope.
Abstract Source: IEEE
Terahertz (THz) band communications are envisioned as a key technology for 6G and Beyond. As a fundamental wireless infrastructure, THz communication can boost abundant promising applications. In 2014, our team published two comprehensive roadmaps for the development and progress of THz communication networks, which helped the research community to start research on this subject afterwards. The topic of THz communications became very important and appealing to the research community due to 6G wireless systems design and development in recent years. Many papers are getting published covering different aspects of wireless systems using the THz band. With this paper, our aim is looking back to the last decade and revisiting the old problems and pointing out what has been achieved in the research community so far. Furthermore, in this paper, open challenges and new research directions still to be investigated for the THz band communication systems are presented, by covering diverse topics ranging from devices, channel behavior, communication and networking, to physical testbeds and demonstration systems. The key aspects presented in this paper will enable THz communications as a pillar of 6G and Beyond wireless systems in the next decade.