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This survey paper focuses on modulation aspects of molecular communication, an emerging field focused on building biologically-inspired systems that embed data within chemical signals. The primary challenges in designing these systems are…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Mehmet Sukru Kuran , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Ilker Demirkol , Nariman Farsad , Andrea Goldsmith

Biological signaling is imagined as a combination of activation and transport. The former is triggered by local molecular interactions and the latter is the result of molecular diffusion. However, other fundamental physical principles of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Bernhard Fichtl , Matthias F. Schneider

In this paper, we present a communication protocol between a pair of biological nanomachines, transmitter and receiver, built upon molecular communications in an aqueous environment. In our proposal, the receiver, acting as a control node,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Felicetti , Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Tadashi Nakano , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Molecular communication (MC) studies biological signals that are found in nature. Most MC literature focuses on particle properties, even though many natural phenomena exhibit wave-like behavior. One such signal is sound waves.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Fatih Merdan , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular communication (MC) enables cooperation of spatially dispersed molecular robots through the feedback control mediated by diffusing signal molecules. However, conventional analysis frameworks for the MC channels mostly consider the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Taishi Kotsuka , Yutaka Hori

In diffusion-based molecular communication, information is transferred from a transmitter to a receiver using molecular carriers. The low achievable data rate is the main disadvantage of diffusion-based molecular over radio-based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Foroogh S. Tabataba

The study of Molecular Communication(MC) is more and more prevalence, and channel model of MC plays an important role in the MC System. Since different propagation environment and modulation techniques produce different channel model, most…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Pengfei Lu , Yang You , Bo Liu , Zhenqiang Wu

Molecular communications (MC), where molecules are used to encode, transmit, and receive information, is a promising means of enabling the coordination of nanoscale devices. The paradigm has been extensively studied from various aspects,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular Communication (MC) is an important nanoscale communication paradigm, which is employed for the interconnection of the nanomachines (NMs) to form nanonetworks. A transmitter NM (TN) sends the information symbols by emitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Baris Atakan , Fatih Gulec

A diffusion-based molecular communication system has two major components: the diffusion in the medium, and the ligand-reception. Information bits, encoded in the time variations of the concentration of molecules, are conveyed to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

In this paper, we consider the diffusive molecular communication channel between a transmitter nano-machine and a receiver nano-machine in a fluid environment. The information molecules released by the transmitter nano-machine into the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Hamidreza Arjmanidi , Andreas Burkovski , Robert Schober

In this paper, we consider a molecular diffusion based communications link that conveys information on the macro-scale (several metres). The motivation is to apply molecular-based communications to challenging electromagnetic environments.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Siyi Wang , Weisi Guo , Song Qiu , Mark D. McDonnell

Molecular communication is not only able to mimic biological and chemical communication mechanisms, but also provides a theoretical framework for viral infection processes. In this tutorial, aerosol and droplet transmission is modeled as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Max Schurwanz , Peter Adam Hoeher , Sunasheer Bhattacharjee , Martin Damrath , Lukas Stratmann , Falko Dressler

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication technique that uses molecules to encode and transfer information. Many efforts have been focused on developing new modulation techniques for MC by exploiting distinguishable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-27 M. Serkan Kopuzlu , M. Okan Araz , Ahmet R. Emirdagi , Murat Kuscu

Molecular Communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication modality that utilizes chemical signals in the form of molecules to exchange information between spatially separated entities. Pulse shaping is an important process in all…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Maryam Kahvazi Zadeh , Iman Mokari Bolhassan , Murat Kuscu

Despite decades of research, the modeling of moving contact lines has remained a formidable challenge in fluid dynamics whose resolution will impact numerous industrial, biological, and daily life applications. On the one hand, molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-09 E. R. Smith , P. E. Theodorakis , R. V. Craster , O. K. Matar

In this paper, we consider a molecular diffusion based communications link that can reliably transport data over-the-air. We show that the system can also reliably transport data across confined structural environments, especially in cases…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Song Qiu , Weisi Guo , Siyi Wang , Nariman Farsad , Andrew Eckford

In this paper, we present an analytical model for a diffusive molecular communication (MC) system with a reversible adsorption receiver in a fluid environment. The time-varying spatial distribution of the information molecules under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Yansha Deng , Adam Noel , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Karen C. Cheung

Molecular codes translate information written in one type of molecules into another molecular language. We introduce a simple model that treats molecular codes as noisy information channels. An optimal code is a channel that conveys…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-26 Tsvi Tlusty

In-body communication is an upcoming field with significant implications for medical diagnostics and therapeutic interventions. Microbubbles have gained attention due to their distinct physical properties, making them promising candidates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Annika Tjabben , Lea Bergkemper , Carolin Conrad , Michael Gundall , Hans D. Schotten