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This paper focuses on molecular communication (MC) systems where the signaling molecules may participate in a reversible bimolecular reaction in the channel. The motivation for studying these MC systems is that they can realize the concept…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

In this paper, we apply dimensional analysis to study a diffusive molecular communication system that uses diffusing enzymes in the propagation environment to mitigate intersymbol interference. The enzymes bind to information molecules and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , 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) allows nanomachines to communicate and cooperate with each other in a fluid environment. The diffusion-based MC is popular but is easily constrained by the transmit distance due to the severe attenuation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Shuo Yuan , Jiaxing Wang , Mugen Peng

This paper presents a Markov-based system model for microfluidic molecular communication (MC) channels. By discretizing the advection-diffusion dynamics, the proposed model establishes a physically consistent state-space formulation. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Pit Hofmann , Fatima Rani , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek

Synaptic communication is a natural Molecular Communication (MC) system which may serve as a blueprint for the design of synthetic MC systems. In particular, it features highly specialized mechanisms to enable inter-symbol interference…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Johannes Zeitler , Robert Schober

In this paper, a cooperative diffusion-based molecular communication system is considered where distributed receivers collaboratively determine a transmitter's signal. In this system, the receivers first make local hard decisions about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

Information delivery using chemical molecules is an integral part of biology at multiple distance scales and has attracted recent interest in bioengineering and communication theory. Potential applications include cooperative networks with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yansha Deng , Adam Noel , Weisi Guo , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan

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

In this paper, we propose adding enzymes to the propagation environment of a diffusive molecular communication system as a strategy for mitigating intersymbol interference. The enzymes form reaction intermediates with information molecules…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

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

Synaptic communication is studied by communication engineers for two main reasons. One is to enable novel neuroengineering applications that require interfacing with neurons. The other reason is to draw inspiration for the design of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-18 Sebastian Lotter , Michael T. Barros , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

Synaptic communication is based on a biological Molecular Communication (MC) system which may serve as a blueprint for the design of synthetic MC systems. However, the physical modeling of synaptic MC is complicated by the possible…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Johannes Zeitler , Robert Schober

Chemical reactions are a prominent feature of molecular communication (MC) systems, with no direct parallels in wireless communications. While chemical reactions may be used inside the transmitter nodes, receiver nodes or the communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Maryam Farahnak-Ghazani , Gholamali Aminian , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

By considering potential health problems that a fully covering receiver may cause in vessel-like environments, the implementation of a partially covering receiver is needed. To this end, distribution of hitting location of messenger…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Meriç Turan , Mehmet Sukru Kuran , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Ilker Demirkol , Tuna Tugcu

Molecular communication is a bio-inspired communication paradigm where molecules are used as the information carrier. This paper considers a molecular communication network where the transmitter uses concentration modulated signals for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Chun Tung Chou

This paper analyzes the channel impulse response of an absorbing receiver (RX) covered by multiple non-overlapping heterogeneous receptors with different sizes and arbitrary locations in a molecular communication system. In this system, a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Stuart T. Johnston , Matthew Faria , Nan Yang , Robert Schober

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange through the transmission of signaling molecules (SMs) and holds promise for many innovative applications. However, most existing works in MC rely on simplified transmitter (TX)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Teena tom Dieck , Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Kathrin Castiglione , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

In diffusion-based molecular communication, information particles locomote via a diffusion process, characterized by random movement and heavy tail distribution for the random arrival time. As a result, the molecular communication shows…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Changmin Lee , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae , Nariman Farsad , Andrea Goldsmith

We consider anomalous diffusion for molecular communication with a passive receiver. We first consider the probability density function of molecules' location at a given time in a space of arbitrary dimension. The expected number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Dung Phuong Trinh , Youngmin Jeong , Sang-Hyo Kim