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Spatial Coding Techniques for Molecular MIMO

Emerging Technologies 2017-06-19 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

This paper studies spatial diversity techniques applied to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) diffusion-based molecular communications (DBMC). Two types of spatial coding techniques, namely Alamouti-type coding and repetition MIMO coding are suggested and analyzed. In addition, we consider receiver-side equal-gain combining, which is equivalent to maximum-ratio combining in symmetrical scenarios. For numerical analysis, the channel impulse responses of a symmetrical 2×22 \times 2 MIMO-DBMC system are acquired by a trained artificial neural network. It is demonstrated that spatial diversity has the potential to improve the system performance and that repetition MIMO coding outperforms Alamouti-type coding.

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@article{arxiv.1706.05091,
  title  = {Spatial Coding Techniques for Molecular MIMO},
  author = {Martin Damrath and H. Birkan Yilmaz and Chan-Byoung Chae and Peter Adam Hoeher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.05091},
  year   = {2017}
}