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Information delivery via molecular signals is abundant in nature and potentially useful for industry sensing. Many propagation channels (e.g., tissue membranes and catalyst beds) contain porous medium materials and the impact this has on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Yuting Fang , Weisi Guo , Matteo Icardi , Adam Noel , Nan Yang

This work introduces capacity limits for molecular timing (MT) channels, where information is modulated in the release timing of small information particles, and decoded from the time of arrivals at the receiver. It is shown that the random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Nariman Farsad , Yonathan Murin , Andrew Eckford , Andrea Goldsmith

This paper studies the capacity of molecular communications in fluid media, where the information is encoded in the number of transmitted molecules in a time-slot (amplitude shift keying). The propagation of molecules is governed by random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Siavash Ghavami , Raviraj Adve , Farshad Lahouti

Molecular communication (MC) is a new communication engineering paradigm where molecules are employed as information carriers. MC systems are expected to enable new revolutionary applications such as sensing of target substances in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Wayan Wicke , Adam Noel , Robert Schober

In diffusion-based molecular communication, information transport is governed by diffusion through a fluid medium. The achievable data rates for these channels are very low compared to the radio-based communication system, since diffusion…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Bon-Hong Koo , Changmin Lee , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Nariman Farsad , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

Molecular communication (MC) is a kind of communication technology based on biochemical molecules for internet of bio-nano things, in which the biochemical molecule is used as the information carrier for the interconnection of nano-devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jiaxing Wang , Bonan Yin , Mugen Peng

In a molecular communication network, transmitters may encode information in concentration or frequency of signalling molecules. When the signalling molecules reach the receivers, they react, via a set of chemical reactions or a molecular…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-23 Chun Tung Chou

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange at the nano- and microscale, with applications in areas like drug delivery and health monitoring. These event-driven scenarios often require alternatives to traditional transmission.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yaning Zhao , Luca Miszewski , Christian Deppe , Massimiliano Pierobon

Molecular Communication (MC) channels are characterized by significant memory and nonlinear dynamics arising from diffusion and receptor kinetics. While often viewed as impairments to reliable data transmission, this work introduces a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mustafa Uzun , Kaan Burak Ikiz , Murat Kuscu

Diffusion-based and neural communication are two interesting domains in molecular communication. Both of them have distinct advantages and are exploited separately in many works. However, in some cases, neural and diffusion-based ways have…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Peng He , Yuming Mao , Qiang Liu , Kun Yang

A diffusion molecular channel is a channel with memory, as molecules released into the medium hit the receptors after a random delay. Coding over the diffusion channel is performed by choosing the type, intensity, or the released time of…

We consider a molecular channel, in which messages are encoded to the frequency of objects (or concentration of molecules) in a pool, and whose output during reading time is a noisy version of the input frequencies, as obtained by sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yuval Gerzon , Ilan Shomorony , Nir Weinberger

Recently, molecular communication (MC) has been studied as a micro-scale communication between cells or molecular robots. In previous works, the MC channels in unbounded environment was analyzed. However, many of the experimentally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Taishi Kotsuka , Yutaka Hori

Analyzing the achievable rate of molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) inherits intricacies due to its nature: MCvD channel has memory, and the heavy tail of the signal causes inter symbol interference (ISI). Therefore, using…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Gaye Genc , Yunus Emre Kara , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Tuna Tugcu

The two-receiver broadcast packet erasure channel with feedback and memory is studied. Memory is modeled using a finite-state Markov chain representing a channel state. Outer and inner bounds on the capacity region are derived when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Michael Heindlmaier , Navid Reyhanian , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

In a diffusion-based molecular communication system, molecules are employed to convey information. When propagation and reception processes are considered in a framework of first passage processes, we need to focus on absorbing receivers.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-05 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Gee-Yong Suk , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communication channel is modeled in presence of a probabilistic absorber. The probabilistic absorber is an absorber which absorbs molecules upon collision with probability q. With random walk…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-09-19 S Salehi , NS Moayedian , E Alarcón

This work introduces the particle-intensity channel (PIC) as a model for molecular communication systems and characterizes the properties of the optimal input distribution and the capacity limits for this system. In the PIC, the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Nariman Farsad , Christopher Rose , Muriel Médard , Andrea Goldsmith

This work introduces the particle-intensity channel (PIC) as a model for molecular communication systems and characterizes the capacity limits as well as properties of the optimal (capacity-achieving) input distributions for such channels.…

Motivated by results in optical communications, where the performance can degrade dramatically if the transmit power is sufficiently increased, the channel capacity is characterized for various kinds of memoryless vector channels. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erik Agrell