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Besides mimicking bio-chemical and multi-scale communication mechanisms, molecular communication forms a theoretical framework for virus infection processes. Towards this goal, aerosol and droplet transmission has recently been modeled as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Peter Adam Hoeher , Martin Damrath , Sunasheer Bhattacharjee , Max Schurwanz

In molecular communications, the direct detection of signaling molecules may be challenging due to a lack of suitable sensors and interference in the environment. Motivated by research in molecular biology, we investigate an indirect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Trang Ngoc Cao , Vahid Jamali , Wayan Wicke , Phee Lep Yeoh , Nikola Zlatanov , Jamie S Evans , Robert Schober

In this work, we consider diffusion-based molecular communication timing channels. Three different timing channels are presented based on three different modulation techniques, i.e., i) modulation of the release timing of the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Nariman Farsad , Weisi Guo , Chan-Byoung Chae , Andrew Eckford

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

Recently, a tabletop molecular communication platform has been developed for transmitting short text messages across a room. The end-to-end system impulse response for this platform does not follow previously published theoretical works…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Nariman Farsad , Na-Rae Kim , Andrew W. Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

We consider a multi-link diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system where multiple spatially distributed transmitter (TX)-receiver (RX) pairs establish point-to-point communication links employing the same type of signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

In a diffusion-based molecular communication network, transmitters and receivers communicate by using signalling molecules (or ligands) in a fluid medium. This paper assumes that the transmitter uses different chemical reactions to generate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Chun Tung Chou

Molecular signalling in living cells occurs at low copy numbers and is thereby inherently limited by the noise imposed by thermal diffusion. The precision at which biochemical receptors can count signalling molecules is intimately related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-26 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

Diffusive molecular communication (DMC) is envisioned as a promising approach to help realize healthcare applications within bounded biological environments. In this paper, a DMC system within a biological spherical environment is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-15 Hamidreza Arjmandi , Mohammad Zoofaghari , Adam Noel

In this paper we study the inherent trade-off between time and communication complexity for the distributed consensus problem. In our model, communication complexity is measured as the maximum data throughput (in bits per second) sent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Federico Rossi , Marco Pavone

We consider molecular communication, with information conveyed in the time of release of molecules. The main contribution of this paper is the development of a theoretical foundation for such a communication system. Specifically, we develop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. V. Srinivas , Raviraj S. Adve , Andrew W. Eckford

In this paper, we study the performance of detectors in a diffusive molecular communication environment where steady uniform flow is present. We derive the expected number of information molecules to be observed in a passive spherical…

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

Using the notion of effective distance proposed by Brockmann and Helbing, complex spatiotemporal processes of epidemic spreading can be reduced to circular wave propagation patterns with well-defined wavefronts. This hidden homogeneity of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-13 Yifan Chen , Yu Zhou , Ross Murch , Tadashi Nakano

This paper studies microfluidic molecular communication receivers with finite-capacity Langmuir adsorption driven by an effective surface concentration. In the reaction-limited regime, we derive a closed-form single-pulse response kernel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Pit Hofmann , Martín Schottlender , Fatima Rani , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek

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

Diffusive molecular communication (DMC) is one of the most promising approaches for realizing nano-scale communications in biological environments for healthcare applications. In this paper, a DMC system in biological cylindrical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Mohammad Zoofaghari , Hamidreza Arjmandi

In this paper, the error performance achieved by cooperative detection among K distributed receivers in a diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system is analyzed and optimized. In this system, the receivers first make local hard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

We present an alternative take on the recently popularized concept of `\textit{joint sensing and communications}', which focuses on using communication resources also for sensing. Here, we propose the opposite, where we utilize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman , Deniz Gündüz

In this paper, we consider diffusive molecular communication (MC) systems affected by signal-dependent diffusive noise, inter-symbol interference, and external noise. We design linear and nonlinear fractionally-spaced equalization schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Trang Ngoc Cao , Vahid Jamali , Nikola Zlatanov , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jamie Evans , Robert Schober