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This paper presents a novel physics-based model for signal propagation in closed-loop molecular communication (MC) systems, which are particularly relevant for many envisioned biomedical applications, such as health monitoring or drug…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Lukas Brand , Fardad Vakilipoor , Sören Botsch , Timo Jakumeit , Sebastian Lotter , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

The ubiquity of information transmission via molecular communication between cells is comprehensively documented on Earth; this phenomenon might even have played a vital role in the origin(s) and early evolution of life. Motivated by these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Manasvi Lingam

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

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

Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD) is a prominent small-scale technology, which roots from the nature. With solid analytical foundations on channel response and advanced modulation techniques, molecular single-input-single-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Gokberk Yaylali , Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz , Tuna Tugcu , Ali Emre Pusane

Inspired by Nature, molecular communications (MC), i.e., use of molecules to encode, transmit and receive information, stands as the most promising communication paradigm to realize nanonetworks. Even though there has been extensive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Murat Kuscu , Ergin Dinc , Bilgesu A. Bilgin , Hamideh Ramezani , Ozgur B. Akan

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…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Lukas Brand , Moritz Garkisch , Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Kathrin Castiglione , Robert Schober

This paper develops a molecular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework that exploits the same molecular observations for physical-parameter sensing and data detection. As a representative instantiation, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Martín Schottlender , Veronika Volkova , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Pit Hofmann

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

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired paradigm for transmitting information using chemical signals, which can enable novel applications at the junction of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and information and communication…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Iman Mokari Bolhassan , Ali Abdali , Murat Kuscu

In this paper, we propose a new Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Molecular Communication (MC) system where multiple types of molecules are utilized for transmission and reception of information. We call the proposed framework as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Hamid Khoshfekr Rudsari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Mahdi Orooji , Nader Mokari , Eduard A. Jorswieck

In this paper, we consider a multi-hop molecular communication network consisting of one nanotransmitter, one nanoreceiver, and multiple nanotransceivers acting as relays. We consider three different relaying schemes to improve the range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Adam Noel , Robert Schober

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

Synaptic communication is a natural Molecular Communication (MC) system which may serve as a blueprint for the design of synthetic MC systems. In particular, it features highly specialized mechanisms to enable inter-symbol interference…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Johannes Zeitler , Robert Schober

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 molecular communication (MC) systems, the \textit{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).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Christophe Jardin , Heinrich Sticht , Robert Schober

Molecular communication is a promising solution to enable intra-body communications among nanomachines. However, malicious and non-cooperative receivers can degrade the performance, compromising these systems' security. Analyzing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta , Neeraj Varshney , Anshuman Jindal

In this paper, we propose a molecular communication system to localize an abnormality in a diffusion based medium. We consider a general setup to perform joint sensing, communication and localization. This setup consists of three types of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Ladan Khaloopour , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

This paper investigates a spherical transmitter (TX) with a membrane covered by heterogeneous receptors of varying sizes and arbitrary locations for molecular communication (MC), where molecules are encapsulated within vesicles and released…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Xinyu Huang , Yu Huang , Miaowen Wen , Nan Yang , Robert Schober

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