In this paper, diffusion-based molecular commu- nication with ligand receptor receivers is studied. Information messages are assumed to be encoded via variations of the con- centration of molecules. The randomness in the ligand reception process induces uncertainty in the communication; limiting the rate of information decoding. We model the ligand receptor receiver by a set of finite-state Markov channels and study the general capacity of such a receiver. Furthermore, the i.i.d. capacity of the receiver is characterized as a lower bound for the general capacity. It is also proved that a finite support probability measure can achieve the i.i.d. capacity of the receiver. Moreover, a bound on the number of points in the support of the probability measure is obtained.
@article{arxiv.1511.02307,
title = {On the Capacity Achieving Probability Measures for Molecular Receivers},
author = {Mehrdad Tahmasbi and Faramarz Fekri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.02307},
year = {2015}
}