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A molecular communication channel is determined by the received signal. Received signal models form the basis for studies focused on modulation, receiver design, capacity, and coding depend on the received signal models. Therefore, it is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-21 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Changmin Lee , Yae Jee Cho , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this work, receiver diversity in advection-dominated diffusion-advection channels is investigated. Strong directed flow fundamentally alters the communication-theoretic properties of molecular communication systems (MC). Specifically,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Fatih Merdan , Ozgur B. Akan

In this letter, we derive the impulse response of the channel with a spherical absorbing receiver, a spherical reflecting boundary, and a point transmitter in molecular communication domain. By exploring the channel characteristics and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Fatih Dinc , Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz , Ali Emre Pusane , Tuna Tugcu

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

We consider nanonodes randomly distributed in a circular area and characterize the received signal strength when a pair of these nodes employ molecular communication. Two communication methods are investigated, namely free diffusion and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Rafay Iqbal Ansari , Chrysostomos Chrysostomou , Taqwa Saeed , Marios Lestas , Andreas Pitsillides

This work introduces capacity limits for molecular timing (MT) channels, where information is modulated on the release timing of small information particles, and decoded from the time of arrival at the receiver. It is shown that the random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nariman Farsad , Yonathan Murin , Andrew Eckford , Andrea Goldsmith

We investigate the maximum rates for transmitting quantum information, distilling entanglement, and distributing secret keys between a sender and a receiver in a multipoint communication scenario, with the assistance of unlimited two-way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Riccardo Laurenza , Stefano Pirandola

Molecular communication is a biologically-inspired method of communication with attractive properties for microscale and nanoscale devices. In molecular communication, messages are transmitted by releasing a pattern of molecules at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Andrew W. Eckford

Molecular communication is an emerging paradigm for systems that rely on the release of molecules as information carriers. Communication via molecular diffusion is a popular strategy that is ubiquitous in nature and very fast over distances…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Adam Noel , Dimitrios Makrakis , Abdelhakim Hafid

The capacity of wireless networks is a classic and important topic of study. Informally, the capacity of a network is simply the total amount of information which it can transfer. In the context of models of wireless radio networks, this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Michael Dinitz , Naomi Ephraim

To communicate at the nanoscale, researchers have proposed molecular communication as an energy-efficient solution. The drawback to this solution is that the histogram of the molecules' hitting times, which constitute the molecular signal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz , Nafi Ahmet Turgut , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae , Tuna Tugcu , Ali Emre Pusane

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

Due to the short and bursty incoming messages, channel access activities in a wireless random access system are often fractional. The lack of frequent data support consequently makes it difficult for the receiver to estimate and track the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

In molecular communication (MC) systems, the expected number of molecules observed at the receiver over time after the instantaneous release of molecules by the transmitter is referred to as the channel impulse response (CIR). Knowledge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Christophe Jardin , Heinrich Sticht , Robert Schober

Exact analytical channel models for molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) systems involving multiple fully absorbing receivers (FARs) in a three-dimensional (3- D) medium are hard to obtain due to the mathematical intractability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nithin V. Sabu , Neeraj Varshney , Abhishek K. Gupta

This letter develops a one-dimensional (1D) diffusion-based molecular communication system to analyze channel responses between a single transmitter (TX) and two fully-absorbing receivers (RXs). Incorporating molecular degradation in the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang

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

Molecular Communication (MC) channels are characterized by significant memory and nonlinear dynamics arising from diffusion and receptor kinetics. While often viewed as impairments to reliable data transmission, this work introduces a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mustafa Uzun , Kaan Burak Ikiz , Murat Kuscu

Cooperative cognitive radio networks are investigated by using an information-theoretic approach. This approach consists of interpreting the decision process carried out at the fusion center as a binary (asymmetric) channel, whose input is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Giorgio Taricco