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In this paper, we consider the diffusive molecular communication channel between a transmitter nano-machine and a receiver nano-machine in a fluid environment. The information molecules released by the transmitter nano-machine into the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Hamidreza Arjmanidi , Andreas Burkovski , Robert Schober

In a diffusion-based molecular communication network, transmitters and receivers communicate by using signalling molecules (or ligands) in a fluid medium. This paper assumes that the transmitter uses different chemical reactions to generate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Chun Tung Chou

Symbol synchronization refers to the estimation of the start of a symbol interval and is needed for reliable detection. In this paper, we develop a symbol synchronization framework for molecular communication (MC) systems where we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

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 this paper, we present an analytical model for a diffusive molecular communication (MC) system with a reversible adsorption receiver in a fluid environment. The time-varying spatial distribution of the information molecules under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Yansha Deng , Adam Noel , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Karen C. Cheung

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

Chemical reactions are a prominent feature of molecular communication (MC) systems, with no direct parallels in wireless communications. While chemical reactions may be used inside the transmitter nodes, receiver nodes or the communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Maryam Farahnak-Ghazani , Gholamali Aminian , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

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

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

In this paper, we design matched filters for diffusive molecular communication systems taking into account the following impairments: signal-dependent diffusion noise, inter-symbol interference (ISI), and external interfering molecules. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

This work presents a comprehensive performance analysis of diffusion based direct, dual-hop, and multi-hop molecular communication systems with Brownian motion and drift in the presence of various distortions such as inter-symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Neeraj Varshney , Adarsh Patel , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Pramod K. Varshney

Motivated by the numerous healthcare applications of molecular communication (MC) inside blood vessels, this work considers relay/cooperative nanomachine (CN)-assisted mobile MC between a source nanomachine (SN) and a destination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Neeraj Varshney , Adarsh Patel , Werner Haselmayr , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Pramod K. Varshney , Weisi Guo

In this paper an analytical model is introduced to describe the impulse response of the diffusive channel between a pointwise transmitter and a given fully-absorbing (FA) receiver in a molecular communication (MC) system. The presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Marco Ferrari , Fardad Vakilipoor , Eric Regonesi , Mariangela Rapisarda , Maurizio Magarini

In Diffusive Molecular Communication (DMC), information is transmitted by diffusing molecules. Synaptic signaling is a natural implementation of this paradigm. It is responsible for relaying information from one neuron to another, but also…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-01 Sebastian Lotter , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

In this paper, we propose a novel concept for engineered molecular communication (MC) systems inspired by animal olfaction. We focus on a multi-user scenario where transmitters employ unique mixtures of different types of signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Vahid Jamali , Helene M. Loos , Andrea Buettner , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

This paper studies the mitigation of intersymbol interference in a diffusive molecular communication system using enzymes that freely diffuse in the propagation environment. The enzymes form reaction intermediates with information molecules…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

This work presents a performance analysis for diffusive molecular communication with mobile transmit and receive nanomachines. To begin with, the optimal test is obtained for symbol detection at the receiver nanomachine. Subsequently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Neeraj Varshney , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we propose a novel concept for engineered molecular communication (MC) systems inspired by animal olfaction. We focus on a multi-user scenario where several transmitters wish to communicate with a central receiver. We assume…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Vahid Jamali , Helene M. Loos , Andrea Buettner , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Molecular Communication (MC) architectures suffer from molecular build-up in the channel if they do not have appropriate reuptake mechanisms. The molecular build-up either leads to intersymbol interference (ISI) or reduces the transmission…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-27 Caglar Koca , Ozgur B. Akan

In molecular communication (MC), molecules are released from the transmitter to convey information. This paper considers a realistic molecule shift keying (MoSK) scenario with two species of molecule in two reservoirs, where the molecules…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongliang Jing , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford