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

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-02-22 M. Okan Araz , Ahmet R. Emirdagi , M. Serkan Kopuzlu , Murat Kuscu

For nano-scale communications, there must be cooperation and simultaneous communication between nano devices. To this end, in this paper we investigate two-way (a.k.a. bi-directional) molecular communications between nano devices. If…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Jong Woo Kwak , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Nariman Farsad , Chan-Byoung Chae , Andrea Goldsmith

One of the important applications of molecular communication is the targeted drug delivery process in which the drug molecules are released toward the target (receiver) in a way that the side effects are minimized in the human body. As the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Roya Paridar , Nader Mokari , Eduard Jorswieck , Mohammad Reza Javan

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-relay selection for multi-stream cooperative MIMO systems with $M$ relay nodes. Traditionally, relay selection approaches are primarily focused on selecting one relay node to improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Shunqing Zhang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Molecular communication, as implied by its name, uses molecules as information carriers for communication between objects. It has an advantage over traditional electromagnetic-wave-based communication in that molecule-based systems could be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Hanlin Xiao , Kamela Dokaj , Ozgur B. Akan

Communication between cells is realized by exchange of biochemical substances. Due to internal organization of living systems and variability of external parameters, the exchange is heavily influenced by perturbations of various parameters…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dragutin T. Mihailovic , Igor Balaz

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

This paper studies the problem of receiver modeling in molecular communication systems. We consider the diffusive molecular communication channel between a transmitter nano-machine and a receiver nano-machine in a fluid environment. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Andreas Burkovski , Robert Schober

In this paper, a simple memory limited transmitter for molecular communication is proposed, in which information is encoded in the diffusion rate of the molecules. Taking advantage of memory, the proposed transmitter reduces the ISI problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Mohammad Movahednasab , Mehdi Soleimanifar , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

Molecular Communication (MC) is a communication strategy that uses molecules as carriers of information, and is widely used by biological cells. As an interdisciplinary topic, it has been studied by biologists, communication theorists and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Amin Gohari , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communication channel between two nano-machines is considered. The effect of the amount of memory on performance is characterized, and a simple memory-limited decoder is proposed and its…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Reza Mosayebi , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

Cells must continuously sense and respond to time-varying environmental stimuli. These signals are transmitted and processed by biochemical signalling networks. However, the biochemical reactions making up these networks are intrinsically…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-18 Filipe Tostevin , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

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

We investigate the consensus problem in a network where nodes communicate via diffusion-based molecular communication (DbMC). In DbMC, messages are conveyed via the variation in the concentration of molecules in the medium. Every node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-03 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Ahmad Beirami , Faramarz Fekri

The $K$-user MIMO multi-way relay channel (Y-channel) consisting of $K$ users with $M$ antennas each and a common relay node with $N$ antennas is studied in this paper. Each user wants to exchange messages with all the other users via the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin

Biological systems are known to communicate by diffusing chemical signals in the surrounding medium. However, most of the recent literature has neglected the electron transfer mechanism occurring amongst living cells, and its role in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Nicolo Michelusi , Sahand Pirbadian , Mohamed Y. El-Naggar , Urbashi Mitra

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

Living cells presumably employ optimized information transfer methods, enabling efficient communication even in noisy environments. As expected, the efficiency of chemical communications between cells depends on the properties of the…