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How many times a diffusing molecule can permeate across a membrane or be adsorbed on a substrate? We employ the encounter-based approach to find the statistics of adsorption or permeation events for molecular diffusion in a general…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Denis S. Grebenkov

In this paper an analytical model is introduced to describe the impulse response of the diffusive channel between a pointwise transmitter and a given fully-absorbing (FA) receiver in a molecular communication (MC) system. The presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Marco Ferrari , Fardad Vakilipoor , Eric Regonesi , Mariangela Rapisarda , Maurizio Magarini

Active transport such as fluid flow is sought in molecular communication to extend coverage, improve reliability, and mitigate interference. Flow models are often over-simplified, assuming one-dimensional diffusion with constant drift.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Wayan Wicke , Tobias Schwering , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Adam Noel , Robert Schober

Molecular communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication method based on the exchange of molecules for information transfer among nanoscale devices. Although MC has been extensively studied from various aspects, limitations imposed by…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

We investigate the capacity of bosonic quantum channels for the transmission of quantum information. Achievable rates are determined from measurable moments of the channel by showing that every channel can asymptotically simulate a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael M. Wolf , David Perez-Garcia , Geza Giedke

This work considers a binomial noise channel. The paper can be roughly divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with the properties of the capacity-achieving distribution. In particular, for the binomial channel, it is not known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ian Zieder , Antonino Favano , Luca Barletta , Alex Dytso

We investigate the problem of information theoretically secure communication in a line network with erasure channels and state feedback. We consider a spectrum of cases for the private randomness that intermediate nodes can generate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Athanasios Papadopoulos , Laszlo Czap , Christina Fragouli

In Diffusive Molecular Communication (DMC), information is transmitted by diffusing molecules. Synaptic signaling is a natural implementation of this paradigm. It is responsible for relaying information from one neuron to another, but also…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-01 Sebastian Lotter , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

Neural channel decoder, as a data-driven channel decoding strategy, has shown very promising improvement on error-correcting capability over the classical methods. However, the success of those deep learning-based decoder comes at the cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Chengwei Zhang , Yifan Du , Siyu Liao

We model biochemical signal transduction, based on a ligand-receptor binding mechanism, as a discrete-time finite-state Markov channel, which we call the BIND channel. We show how to obtain the capacity of this channel, for the case of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-15 Peter J. Thomas , Andrew W. Eckford

One of the primary sequencing methods gaining prominence in DNA storage is nanopore sequencing, attributed to various factors. In this work, we consider a simplified model of the sequencer, characterized as a channel. This channel takes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Omer Yerushalmi , Tuvi Etzion , Eitan Yaakobi

The identification capacity region of the compound broadcast channel is determined under an average error criterion, where the sender has no channel state information. We give single-letter identification capacity formulas for discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Johannes Rosenberger , Uzi Pereg , Christian Deppe

In this paper, we propose novel modulation techniques using isomers as messenger molecules for nano communication via diffusion. To evaluate achievable rate performance, we compare the proposed techniques with concentration-based and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-01-05 Na-Rae Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

We study compressible fluid flow in narrow two-dimensional channels using a novel molecular dynamics simulation method. In the simulation area, an upstream source is maintained at constant density and temperature while a downstream…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Sun , C. Ebner

This work presents a novel diffusion based dual-phase molecular communication system where the source leverages multiple cooperating nanomachines to improve the end-to-end reliability of communication. The Neyman-Pearson Likelihood Ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Neeraj Varshney , Adarsh Patel , Aditya K. Jagannatham

The time dependency of the diffusion coefficient of particles in porous media is an efficient probe of their geometry. The analysis of this quantity, measured e.g. by nuclear magnetic resonance (PGSE-NMR), can provide rich information…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-13 Maximilien Levesque , Olivier Bénichou , Benjamin Rotenberg

We study the problem of computing the capacity of a discrete memoryless channel under uncertainty affecting the channel law matrix, and possibly with a constraint on the average cost of the input distribution. The problem has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Krzysztof Postek , Aharon Ben-Tal

Transmitting data reliably over noisy communication channels is one of the most important applications of information theory, and well understood when the channel is accurately modelled by classical physics. However, when quantum effects…

Transport of molecules across membrane channels is investigated theoretically using exactly solvable discrete stochastic site-binding models. It is shown that the interaction potential between molecules and the channel has a strong effect…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

Evaluating the channel capacity is one of many key problems in information theory. In this work we derive rather-mild sufficient conditions under which the capacity is finite and achievable. These conditions are derived for generic,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Jihad Fahs , Ibrahim Abou-Faycal