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In this paper, we present a communication protocol between a pair of biological nanomachines, transmitter and receiver, built upon molecular communications in an aqueous environment. In our proposal, the receiver, acting as a control node,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Felicetti , Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Tadashi Nakano , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

In this paper, we consider a molecular diffusion based communications link that can reliably transport data over-the-air. We show that the system can also reliably transport data across confined structural environments, especially in cases…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Song Qiu , Weisi Guo , Siyi Wang , Nariman Farsad , Andrew Eckford

Spherical multi-layered structures are prevalent in numerous biological systems and engineered applications, including tumor spheroids, layered tissues, and multi-shell nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery. Despite their widespread…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mitra Rezaei , Michael Chappell , Adam Noel

In this work, we describe the first modular, and programmable platform capable of transmitting a text message using chemical signalling -- a method also known as molecular communication. This form of communication is attractive for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Nariman Farsad , Weisi Guo , Andrew W. Eckford

This paper proposes a method for accurately estimating the relative position between two nodes with unknown locations in a diffusion-based molecular communication environment. A specialized node structure is designed, combining a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Sangjun Hwang , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this paper, we consider the bacterial point-to-point communication problem with one transmitter and one receiver by considering the ligand receptor binding process. The most commonly investigated signalling model, referred to as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Gholamali Aminian , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Faramarz Fekri

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

In this demonstration, we will present the world's first molecular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication link to deliver two data streams in a spatial domain. We show that chemical signals such as concentration gradients could…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Changmin Lee , Bonhong Koo , Na-Rae Kim , Birkan Yilmaz , Nariman Farsard , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

Cells can utilize chemical communication to exchange information and coordinate their behavior in the presence of noise. Communication can reduce noise to shape a collective response, or amplify noise to generate distinct phenotypic…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-24 David T. Gonzales , T-Y Dora Tang , Christoph Zechner

The study of Molecular Communication(MC) is more and more prevalence, and channel model of MC plays an important role in the MC System. Since different propagation environment and modulation techniques produce different channel model, most…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Pengfei Lu , Yang You , Bo Liu , Zhenqiang Wu

Within the domain of molecular communications, researchers mimic the techniques in nature to come up with alternative communication methods for collaborating nanomachines. This work investigates the channel transfer function for molecular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-18 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Akif Cem Heren , Tuna Tugcu , Chan-Byoung Chae

Quantum relays are central to both quantum communication and distributed quantum computing, enabling long-distance transmission and modular architectures. Unlike classical repeaters, quantum repeaters preserve coherence without amplifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yigal Ilin , Uzi Pereg

Reliable transmission of a discrete memoryless source over a multiple-relay relay-broadcast network is considered. Motivated by sensor network applications, it is assumed that the relays and the destinations all have access to side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , Andrea Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we propose a novel concept for engineered molecular communication (MC) systems inspired by animal olfaction. We focus on a multi-user scenario where several transmitters wish to communicate with a central receiver. We assume…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Vahid Jamali , Helene M. Loos , Andrea Buettner , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Molecular Communication (MC) leverages the power of diffusion to transmit molecules from a transmitter to a receiver. A wide variety of modulation techniques based on molecule concentration, type, and release time have been extensively…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Boran A. Kilic , Ozgur B. Akan

We consider a cellular network where mobile transceiver devices that are owned by self-interested users are incentivized to cooperate with each other using tokens, which they exchange electronically to "buy" and "sell" downlink relay…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Nicholas Mastronarde , Viral Patel , Jie Xu , Lingjia Liu , Mihaela van der Schaar

We derive the capacity of the binary multi-way relay channel, in which multiple users exchange messages at a common rate through a relay. The capacity is achieved using a novel functional-decode-forward coding strategy. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson , Christopher M. Kellett

Synthetic molecular communication (MC) is a new communication engineering paradigm which is expected to enable revolutionary applications such as smart drug delivery and real-time health monitoring. The design and implementation of…

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 conventional molecular communication (MC) systems, the signaling molecules used for information transmission are stored, released, and then replenished by a transmitter (TX). However, the replenishment of signaling molecules at the TX is…