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Recently, it has been proposed, that nanodevices can be injected in the human body and perform non-invasive medical diagnostics. However, due to their small size, a plethora of such nanodevices need to be used in practical applications, thus, creating a nanonetwork, which collects the information and communicates with out-of-body nodes. For these networks, several models have been proposed for the THz channel in the in-vivo scenario. Most of them are based on well-defined theories and physical laws, while some of them are based on experiments. In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art of channel modeling of in-vivo communications in the THz band and discuss future trends and research challenges.
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Papanikolaou, V.K., Karagiannidis, G.K. (2018). Channel Modeling of In-Vivo THz Nanonetworks: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges. In: Perego, P., Rahmani, A., TaheriNejad, N. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98551-0_6
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