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Molecular Communication (MC) is an important nanoscale communication paradigm, which is employed for the interconnection of the nanomachines (NMs) to form nanonetworks. A transmitter NM (TN) sends the information symbols by emitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Baris Atakan , Fatih Gulec

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

Recent developments in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) are laying the groundwork for innovative applications across the healthcare sector. Nanodevices designed to operate within the body, managed remotely via the internet, are…

The Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), envisioned as a revolutionary healthcare paradigm, shows promise for epidemic control. This paper explores the potential of using molecular communication (MC) to address the challenges in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xuan Chen , Yu Huang , Miaowen Wen , Shahid Mumtaz , Fatih Gulec , Anwer Al-Dulaimi , Andrew W. Eckford

This paper studies the problem of receiver modeling in molecular communication systems. We consider the diffusive molecular communication channel between a transmitter nano-machine and a receiver nano-machine in a fluid environment. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Andreas Burkovski , Robert Schober

Molecular Communications (MC) is an emerging research paradigm that utilizes molecules to transmit information, with promising applications in biomedicine such as targeted drug delivery or tumor detection. It is also envisioned as a key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Martín Schottlender , Maximilian Schäfer , Ricardo A. Veiga

The notion of synthetic molecular communication (MC) refers to the transmission of information via molecules and is largely foreseen for use within the human body, where traditional electromagnetic wave (EM)-based communication is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Timo Jakumeit , Lukas Brand , Jens Kirchner , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

Molecular Communication (MC) is a pivotal enabler for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). However, current research often relies on super-capable individual agents with complex transceiver architectures that defy the energy and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-27 Boran A. Kilic , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication paradigm that uses molecules as information carriers, requiring unconventional transceivers and modulation/detection techniques. Practical MC receivers (MC-Rxs) can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Meltem Civas , Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular communication (MC) is a concept in communication engineering, where diffusive molecules are used to transmit information between nano or micro-scale chemical reaction systems. Engineering MC to control the reaction systems in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Shoichiro Kitada , Taishi Kotsuka , Yutaka Hori

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 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

In this paper, we consider the diffusive molecular communication channel between a transmitter nano-machine and a receiver nano-machine in a fluid environment. The information molecules released by the transmitter nano-machine into the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Hamidreza Arjmanidi , Andreas Burkovski , Robert Schober

Motivated by the numerous healthcare applications of molecular communication (MC) inside blood vessels, this work considers relay/cooperative nanomachine (CN)-assisted mobile MC between a source nanomachine (SN) and a destination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Neeraj Varshney , Adarsh Patel , Werner Haselmayr , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Pramod K. Varshney , Weisi Guo

Nanoparticle drug carriers play an important role in facilitating efficient targeted drug delivery, i.e., improving treatment success and reducing drug costs and side effects. However, the mobility of nanoparticle drug carriers poses a…

Cooperative molecular communication (MC) is a promising technology for facilitating communication between nanomachines in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) field. However, the performance of IoBNT is limited by the availability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongliang Jing , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford

The performance of communication systems is fundamentally limited by the loss of energy through propagation and circuit inefficiencies. In this article, we show that it is possible to achieve ultra low energy communications at the…

In the domain of molecular communication (MC), information is conveyed through the characteristics of molecules transmitted between the transmitter and the receiver bionanosensors via propagation. The constrained size of the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Dongliang Jing , Linjuan Li , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford

Molecular Communications (MC) uses molecules as information carriers between nanomachines. MC channel in practice can be crowded with different types of molecules, i.e., ligands, which can have similar binding properties causing severe…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

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