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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

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

Molecular communication (MC) provides a foundational framework for information transmission in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), where efficiency and reliability are crucial. However, the inherent limitations of molecular channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Hanlin Cai , Ozgur B. Akan

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…

Molecular Communication (MC) is an emerging field of research focused on understanding how cells in the human body communicate and exploring potential medical applications. In theoretical analysis, the goal is to investigate cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Wafa Labidi , Vida Gholamian , Yaning Zhao , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

In this paper, a simple memory limited transmitter for molecular communication is proposed, in which information is encoded in the diffusion rate of the molecules. Taking advantage of memory, the proposed transmitter reduces the ISI problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Mohammad Movahednasab , Mehdi Soleimanifar , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

In this work, we describe the first modular, and programmable platform capable of transmitting a text message using chemical signalling -- a method also known as molecular communication. This form of communication is attractive for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Nariman Farsad , Weisi Guo , Andrew W. Eckford

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…

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 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

Molecular communication (MC) can enable the transfer of information between nanomachines using molecules as the information carrier. In MC systems, multiple receiver nanomachines often co-exist in the same communication channel to serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta , Neeraj Varshney , Anshuman Jindal

In this paper, we present an analytical framework to derive the performance of a molecular communication system where a transmitter bio-nano-machine (TBN) is communicating with a fully-absorbing spherical receiver bio-nano-machine (RBN) in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta

Molecular communications (MC), where molecules are used to encode, transmit, and receive information, is a promising means of enabling the coordination of nanoscale devices. The paradigm has been extensively studied from various aspects,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Murat Kuscu , 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…

Inspired by biological communication systems, molecular communication has been proposed as a viable scheme to communicate between nano-sized devices separated by a very short distance. Here, molecules are released by the transmitter into…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Sachin Kadloor , Raviraj S. Adve , Andrew W. Eckford

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

Molecular communication underpins nano-scale communications in nanotechnology. The combination of multinanomachines to form nano-networks is one of the main enabling methods. Due to the importance of source localization in establishing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yuqi Miao , Wence Zhang , Xu Bao

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

Diffusive molecular communications (DiMC) have recently gained attention as a candidate for nano- to micro- and macro-scale communications due to its simplicity and energy efficiency. As signal propagation is solely enabled by Brownian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

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