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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…

In a molecular communication network, transmitters may encode information in concentration or frequency of signalling molecules. When the signalling molecules reach the receivers, they react, via a set of chemical reactions or a molecular…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-23 Chun Tung Chou

In this second part of our survey on experimental research in Synthetic Molecular Communication (SMC), we review works on long-range SMC systems, i.e., systems with communication ranges of more than a few millimeters. Despite the importance…

This paper studies the impact of a transmitter's molecule generation process on the capacity of a concentration based Molecular Communication (MC) system. Constraints caused by the molecule generation process affect the availability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hamid G. Bafghi , Amin Gohari , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

Molecular communication is an expanding body of research. Recent advances in biology have encouraged using genetically engineered bacteria as the main component in the molecular communication. This has stimulated a new line of research that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekr

In multicellular organisms, cells coordinate their activities through cell-cell communication (CCC), which is crucial for development, tissue homeostasis, and disease progression. Recent advances in single-cell and spatial omics…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Xiangzheng Cheng , Haili Huang , Ye Su , Qing Nie , Xiufen Zou , Suoqin Jin

In recent years, progresses in nanotechnology have established the foundations for implementing nanomachines capable of carrying out simple but significant tasks. Under this stimulus, researchers have been proposing various solutions for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Luca Felicetti , Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Pietro Liò

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 as the most potential methods to solve the communication in nano scale, for it's derived from nature, and it becomes more and more prevalent. Though molecular communication happens in three dimensional situation,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Pengfei Lu , Zhenqiang Wu

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 current molecular communication (MC) systems, performing computational operations at the nanoscale remains challenging, restricting their applicability in complex scenarios such as adaptive biochemical control and advanced nanoscale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Jianqiao Long , Lei Zhang , Miaowen Wen , Kezhi Wang , Natalio Krasnogor , Jichun Li

Molecular Communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication modality that utilizes chemical signals in the form of molecules to exchange information between spatially separated entities. Pulse shaping is an important process in all…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Maryam Kahvazi Zadeh , Iman Mokari Bolhassan , Murat Kuscu

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

Information delivery via molecular signals is abundant in nature and potentially useful for industry sensing. Many propagation channels (e.g., tissue membranes and catalyst beds) contain porous medium materials and the impact this has on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Yuting Fang , Weisi Guo , Matteo Icardi , Adam Noel , Nan Yang

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

Humankind mimics the processes and strategies that nature has perfected and uses them as a model to address its problems. That has recently found a new direction, i.e., a novel communication technology called molecular communication (MC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Dilara Aktas , Beyza Ezgi Ortlek , Meltem Civas , Elham Baradari , Ayse Sila Okcu , Melanie Whitfield , Oktay Cetinkaya , Ozgur Baris Akan

Molecular communication (MC) is an emerging paradigm that takes inspiration from biological processes, enabling communication at the nanoscale and facilitating the development of the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). Traditional models…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Shaojie Zhang , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular communication (MC) enables cooperation of spatially dispersed molecular robots through the feedback control mediated by diffusing signal molecules. However, conventional analysis frameworks for the MC channels mostly consider the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Taishi Kotsuka , Yutaka Hori

Since its emergence from the communication engineering community around one and a half decades ago, the field of Synthetic Molecular Communication (SMC) has experienced continued growth, both in the number of technical contributions from a…

Molecular communication (MC) is a paradigm that employs molecules as information transmitters, hence, requiring unconventional transceivers and detection techniques for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). In this study, we provide a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-27 O. Tansel Baydas , Ozgur B. Akan