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In the ultraviolet (UV) scattering communication, the received signals exhibit the characteristics of discrete photoelectrons due to path loss. The synchronization is based on maximum Pulse Number-Sequence correlation problem. First of all,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Shihui Yu , Chen Gong , Zhengyuan Xu

In this paper, the error performance achieved by cooperative detection among K distributed receivers in a diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system is analyzed and optimized. In this system, the receivers first make local hard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

We present a novel cross-band modulation framework that combines 3D modulation in the RF domain with intensity modulation and direct detection in the optical domain, the first such integration to enhance communication reliability. By…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Thrassos K. Oikonomou , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

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…

This paper focuses on molecular communication (MC) systems using two types of signaling molecules which may participate in a reversible bimolecular reaction in the channel. The motivation for studying these MC systems is that they can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

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

Optimal symbol detection in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is known to be an NP-hard problem. Recently, there has been a growing interest to get reasonably close to the optimal solution using neural networks while keeping the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-15 Nicolas Zilberstein , Chris Dick , Rahman Doost-Mohammady , Ashutosh Sabharwal , Santiago Segarra

We consider a molecular communication system comprised of a transmitter, an absorbing receiver, and an interference source. Assuming amplitude modulation, we analyze the dependence of the bit error rate (BER) on the detection interval,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Trang Ngoc Cao , Nikola Zlatanov , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jamie S. Evans

Numerous biological functions-such as enzymatic catalysis, the immune response system, and the DNA-protein regulatory network-rely on the ability of molecules to specifically recognize target molecules within a large pool of similar…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-27 Yonatan Savir , Tsvi Tlusty

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

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 existing sensor technologies such as metal-oxide semi-conductor (MOS) sensors. However,…

In diffusion-based molecular communication, information transport is governed by diffusion through a fluid medium. The achievable data rates for these channels are very low compared to the radio-based communication system, since diffusion…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Bon-Hong Koo , Changmin Lee , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Nariman Farsad , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

Diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) systems experience significant reliability losses. To boost the reliability, an MC scheme where multiple receivers (RXs) work cooperatively to decide the signal of a transmitter (TX) by sending…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Yiran Wang , Nan Yang

We consider the `one-shot frame synchronization problem' where a decoder wants to locate a sync pattern at the output of a channel on the basis of sequential observations. We assume that the sync pattern of length N starts being emitted at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-23 Venkat Chandar , Aslan Tchamkerten , Gregory Wornell

In this paper we explore low-complexity probabilistic algorithms for soft symbol detection in high-dimensional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We present a novel algorithm based on the Expectation Consistency (EC) framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Javier Cépedes , Pablo M. Olmos , Matilde Sánchez-Fernández , Fernando Pérez-Cruz

This paper investigates symbol detection for single-carrier communication systems operating in the presence of additive interference with Nakagami-m statistics. Such interference departs from the assumptions underlying conventional…

Significant inter-symbol interference (ISI) challenges the achievement of reliable, high data-rate molecular communication via diffusion. In this paper, a hybrid modulation based on pulse position and concentration is proposed to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Daewon Seo , Urbashi Mitra

We present many new results related to reliable (interactive) communication over insertion-deletion channels. Synchronization errors, such as insertions and deletions, strictly generalize the usual symbol corruption errors and are much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi , Ellen Vitercik

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains owing to their strong generative and denoising capabilities. Meanwhile, semantic communication based on neural joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has emerged as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Yoon Huh , Jeongho Kang , Wan Choi

Abnormality detection and localization (ADL) have been studied widely in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) literature, where the sensors use electromagnetic waves for communication. Molecular communication (MC) has been introduced as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ali Etemadi , Maryam Farahnak-Ghazani , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari