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Diffusive molecular communications (DiMC) have recently gained attention as a candidate for nano- to micro- and macro-scale communications due to its simplicity and energy efficiency. As signal propagation is solely enabled by Brownian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

Most diffusion based molecular channels suffer from low information capacity due to the structure of the diffusion environment. To address this issue, this paper studies the capacity of the diffusion based molecular communication by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Farhad Mirkarimi , 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

Molecular communication between biological entities is a new paradigm in communications. Recently, we studied molecular communication between two nodes formed from synthetic bacteria. Due to high randomness in behavior of bacteria, we used…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

In the physical layer (PHY) of modern cellular systems, information is transmitted as a sequence of resource blocks (RBs) across various domains with each resource block limited to a certain time and frequency duration. In the PHY of 4G/5G…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Karim A. Said , A. A. Louis Beex , Elizabeth Bentley , Lingjia Liu

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 investigate multicellular sender receiver systems embedded in hydrogel beads, where diffusible signals mediate interactions among heterogeneous cells. Such systems are modeled by PDE ODE couplings that combine three dimensional diffusion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Taishi Kotsuka , Enoch Yeung

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

Information molecules play a crucial role in molecular communication (MC), acting as carriers for information transfer. A common approach to get information molecules in MC involves harvesting them from the environment; however, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Dongliang Jing , Linjuan Li , Zhen Cheng , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford

Inter and intra-cellular signaling are essential for individual cells to execute various physiological tasks and accurately respond to changes in their environment. Signaling is carried out via diffusible molecules, the transport of which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-13 Sumantra Sarkar , Sandeep Choubey

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

To enable densely deployed base stations (BSs) or access points (APs) to serve an increasing number of users and provide diverse mobile services, we need to improve spectrum utilization in wireless communication networks. Although spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Zhao Li , Fengjuan Guo , Kang G Shin , Yinghou Liu , Jia Liu

Hydroxide ion transport in anion-exchange membranes fundamentally limits the efficiency of alkaline water electrolysis for green hydrogen production, yet the atomic-scale transport mechanisms remain poorly understood due to the…

Chemical reactions are a prominent feature of molecular communication (MC) systems, with no direct parallels in wireless communications. While chemical reactions may be used inside the transmitter nodes, receiver nodes or the communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Maryam Farahnak-Ghazani , Gholamali Aminian , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication technique that uses molecules to transfer information among bio-nano devices. In this paper, we focus on the detection problem for biological MC receivers employing ligand…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

In biological cells and novel diagnostic devices biochemical receptors need to be sensitive to extremely small concentration changes of signaling molecules. The accuracy of such molecular signaling is ultimately limited by the counting…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-06 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

Intersymbol Interference (ISI) has a detrimental impact on any Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD) system. Also, the receiver noise can severely degrade the MCvD channel performance. However, the channel codes proposed in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Tamoghno Nath , Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Adrish Banerjee

In this paper, we introduce an autoencoder (AE)-based scheme for end-to-end optimization of a multi-user molecule mixture communication system. In the proposed scheme, each transmitter leverages an encoder network that maps the user symbol…

In this paper, we design matched filters for diffusive molecular communication systems taking into account the following impairments: signal-dependent diffusion noise, inter-symbol interference (ISI), and external interfering molecules. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

There are now several works on the use of the additive inverse Gaussian noise (AIGN) model for the random transit time in molecular communication~(MC) channels. The randomness invariably causes inter-symbol interference (ISI) in MC, an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Siavash Ghavami , Raviraj Adve , Farshad Lahouti