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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

The activity of biological cells is primarily based on chemical reactions and typically modeled as a reaction-diffusion system. Cells are, however, highly crowded with macromolecules, including a variety of molecular machines such as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Yuichi Togashi

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

Molecular communication is not only able to mimic biological and chemical communication mechanisms, but also provides a theoretical framework for viral infection processes. In this tutorial, aerosol and droplet transmission is modeled as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Max Schurwanz , Peter Adam Hoeher , Sunasheer Bhattacharjee , Martin Damrath , Lukas Stratmann , Falko Dressler

This work presents a new multi-chemical experimental platform for molecular communication where the transmitter can release different chemicals. This platform is designed to be inexpensive and accessible, and it can be expanded to simulate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Nariman Farsad , David Pan , Andrea Goldsmith

A diffusion molecular channel is a channel with memory, as molecules released into the medium hit the receptors after a random delay. Coding over the diffusion channel is performed by choosing the type, intensity, or the released time of…

In this paper, we propose three novel modulation techniques, i.e., concentration-based, molecular-type-based, and molecular-ratio-based, using isomers as messenger molecules for nano communication networks via diffusion. To evaluate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Na-Rae Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

The emerging field of Molecular Communication (MC) aims to characterize biological-based signaling environment through information that are encoded into molecules. Since the birth of this field, a number of different applications and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-28 Dixon Vimalajeewa , Sasitharan Balasubramaniam

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

Biological cells can transmit, process and receive chemically encoded data in the same way as network devices transmit, process, and receive digitally encoded data. Communication protocols have led to the rapid development of computer…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-22 A. M. El-Edkawy , M. A. El-Dosuky , Taher Hamza

Simple and easy to implement testbeds are needed to further advance molecular communication research. To this end, this paper presents an in-vessel molecular communication testbed using magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in an aqueous…

In this paper, we apply dimensional analysis to study a diffusive molecular communication system that uses diffusing enzymes in the propagation environment to mitigate intersymbol interference. The enzymes bind to information molecules and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

Intercellular signaling has an important role in organism development, but not all communication occurs using the same mechanism. Here, we analyze the energy efficiency of intercellular signaling by two canonical mechanisms: diffusion of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-30 Hyunjoong Kim , Yoichiro Mori , Joshua B. Plotkin

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) enables information exchange through the transmission of signaling molecules (SMs) and holds promise for many innovative applications. However, most existing works in MC rely on simplified transmitter (TX)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Teena tom Dieck , Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Kathrin Castiglione , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

This paper proposes a method for accurately estimating the relative position between two nodes with unknown locations in a diffusion-based molecular communication environment. A specialized node structure is designed, combining a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Sangjun Hwang , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

This work presents a novel flow-based molecular communication (MC) testbed using spectral sensing and ink intensity estimation to enable real-time multi-molecule (MUMO) transmission. MUMO communication opens up crucial opportunities for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Alexander Wietfeld , Sebastian Schmidt , Wolfgang Kellerer

In this letter, we consider a 3D molecular communication via diffusion system (MCvDS) with a single point transmitter and multiple fully-absorbing spherical receivers whose centers are distributed as a Poisson point process (PPP) in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta

In this paper, we propose adding enzymes to the propagation environment of a diffusive molecular communication system as a strategy for mitigating intersymbol interference. The enzymes form reaction intermediates with information molecules…

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