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Air-based molecular communication (MC) has the potential to be one of the first MC systems to be deployed in real-world applications, enabled by commercially available sensors. However, these sensors usually exhibit non-linear and…

Molecular communication is a new field of communication where molecules are used to transfer information. Among the proposed methods, molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is particularly effective. One of the main challenges in MCvD…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Burcu Tepekule , Ali E. Pusane , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae , Tuna Tugcu

Molecular communication (MC) is a communication paradigm in which information is conveyed through the controlled release, propagation, and reception of molecules. Many envisioned healthcare applications of MC are expected to operate inside…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Theofilos Symeonidis , Fardad Vakilipoor , Robert Schober , Nunzio Tuccitto , Maximilian Schäfer

Synaptic communication is based on a biological Molecular Communication (MC) system which may serve as a blueprint for the design of synthetic MC systems. However, the physical modeling of synaptic MC is complicated by the possible…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Johannes Zeitler , Robert Schober

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

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…

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The recently emerged molecular communication (MC) paradigm intends to leverage communication engineering tools for the design of synthetic chemical communication systems. These systems are envisioned to operate at nanoscale and in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Lukas Brand , Yan Wang , Maurizio Magarini , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

The possibility to guide and control magnetic nanoparticles in a non-invasive manner has spawned various applications in biotechnology such as targeted drug delivery and sensing of biological substances. These applications are facilitated…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Wayan Wicke , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Harald Unterweger , Christoph Alexiou , Robert Schober

The design of components with molecular communication (MC) functionalities can bring an opportunity to enable some emerging applications in fields from personal healthcare to modern industry. In this paper, we propose the designs of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Dadi Bi , Yansha Deng

In this paper, we develop a mathematical framework for modeling the time-variant stochastic channels of diffusive mobile MC systems. In particular, we consider a diffusive mobile MC system consisting of a pair of transmitter and receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

Molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is a molecular communication method that utilizes the free diffusion of carrier molecules to transfer information at the nano-scale. Due to the random propagation of carrier molecules,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Ertugrul Basar , Ali Emre Pusane , Tuna Tugcu

Molecular Communications via Diffusion (MCvD) is a promising paradigm which enables nano-machines to communicate with each other. However, the reliability of existing systems degrade rapidly as the distance between the transmitters and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-05 Ghazaleh Ardeshiri , Ali Jamshidi , Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad

Diffusion-based molecular communication over nanonetworks is an emerging communication paradigm that enables nanomachines to communicate by using molecules as the information carrier. For such a communication paradigm, Concentration Shift…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Subodh Pudasaini , Seokjoo Shin , Kyung Sup Kwak

Molecular communication (MC) engineering is inspired by the use of chemical signals as information carriers in cell biology. The biological nature of chemical signaling makes MC a promising methodology for interdisciplinary applications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Dadi Bi , Apostolos Almpanis , Adam Noel , Yansha Deng , Robert Schober

Due to the limited capabilities of a single bio-nanomachine, complicated tasks can be performed only with the co-operation of multiple bio-nanomachines. In this work, we consider a diffusion-based molecular communication system with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta

The design of biologically-inspired wireless communication systems using bacteria as the basic element of the system is initially motivated by a phenomenon called \emph{Quorum Sensing}. Due to high randomness in the individual behavior of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

In this paper, we propose a hybrid nano communication (HNC) system that integrates three possible modes of nano communications: terahertz communication (TC), molecular communication (MC), and neural communication (NC). The paper provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-13 S. M. Riazul Islam , M. Jalil Piran , Anish P. Shreesta , Farman Ali , Asif Iqbal , Kyung-Sup Kwak

Molecular communication (MC), one of the emerging techniques in the field of communication, is entering a new phase following several decades of foundational research. Recently, attention has shifted toward MC in liquid media, particularly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yun-Feng Lo , Changmin Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this paper, we perform receiver design for a diffusive molecular communication environment. Our model includes flow in any direction, sources of information molecules in addition to the transmitter, and enzymes in the propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

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