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Analytical modeling of field-assisted molecular communication under dynamic electric fields is fundamentally challenging due to the coupling between stochastic transport and complex boundary geometries, which renders conventional partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Po-Chun Chou , Yen-Chi Lee , Chun-An Yang , Chia-Han Lee , Ping-Cheng Yeh

We study non-coherent detection schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems that do not require knowledge of the channel state information (CSI). In particular, we first derive the optimal maximum likelihood (ML) multiple-symbol (MS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

In this paper, we present a new performance bound for uplink channel estimation (CE) accuracy in the Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system. The proposed approach is based on noise power prediction after the CE unit. Our…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Alexander Osinsky , Andrey Ivanov , Dmitry Yarotsky

In this paper, we consider abnormality detection via diffusive molecular communications (MCs) for a network consisting of several sensors and a fusion center (FC). If a sensor detects an abnormality, it injects into the medium a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Reza Mosayebi , Vahid Jamali , Nafiseh Ghoroghchian , Robert Schober , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Mahdieh Mehrabi

In the emerging field of molecular communication (MC), testbeds are needed to validate theoretical concepts, motivate applications, and guide further modeling efforts. To this end, this paper presents a flexible and extendable in-vessel…

In this paper, we propose a novel design for molecular communication in which both the transmitter and the receiver have, in a 3-dimensional environment, multiple bulges (in RF communication this corresponds to antenna). The proposed system…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bonhong Koo , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this paper, we present an analytical model for a diffusive molecular communication (MC) system with a reversible adsorption receiver in a fluid environment. The time-varying spatial distribution of the information molecules under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Yansha Deng , Adam Noel , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Karen C. Cheung

In this paper, we present a deep learning (DL) algorithm for channel estimation in communication systems. We consider the time-frequency response of a fast fading communication channel as a two-dimensional image. The aim is to find the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Mehran Soltani , Vahid Pourahmadi , Ali Mirzaei , Hamid Sheikhzadeh

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

In a diffusion-based molecular communication system, molecules are employed to convey information. When propagation and reception processes are considered in a framework of first passage processes, we need to focus on absorbing receivers.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-05 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Gee-Yong Suk , Chan-Byoung Chae

Secured opportunistic Medium Access Control (MAC) and complexity reduction in channel estimation are proposed in the Cross layer design Cognitive Radio Networks deploying the secured dynamic channel allocation from the endorsed channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Niraj Shakhakarmi

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

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

In this paper, symbol-by-symbol maximum likelihood (ML) detection is proposed for a cooperative diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system. In this system, the transmitter (TX) sends a common information symbol to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

This paper explores the Achievable Information Rate (AIR) of a diffusive Molecular Communication (MC) channel featuring a fully absorbing receiver that counts the absorbed particles during symbol time intervals (STIs) and resets the counter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Fardad Vakilipoor , Luca Barletta , Stefano Bregni , Maurizio Magarini

In this work, we study the design of receivers for uplink multi-user systems, aiming to estimate both the channel and the transmitted symbols. We consider two estimation strategies: (i) a joint estimation approach, where the channel and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xue Zhang , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In a molecular communication network, transmitters and receivers communicate by using signalling molecules. At the receivers, the signalling molecules react, via a chain of chemical reactions, to produce output molecules. The counts of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-23 Chun Tung Chou

In this paper, we investigate the blind channel estimation problem for MIMO systems under Rayleigh fading channel. Conventional MIMO communication techniques require transmitting a considerable amount of training symbols as pilots in each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

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

A key challenge in Molecular Communications (MC) is low data transmission rates, which can be addressed by channel multiplexing techniques. One way to achieve channel multiplexing in MC is to leverage the diversity of different molecule…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ahmet R. Emirdagi , M. Serkan Kopuzlu , M. Okan Araz , Murat Kuscu