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Molecular communication (MC) is a promising paradigm for applications where traditional electromagnetic communications are impractical. However, decoding chemical signals, especially in multi-transmitter systems, remains a key challenge due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Vivien Walter , Dadi Bi , Daniel L. Ruiz Blanco , Yansha Deng

In biological cells and novel diagnostic devices biochemical receptors need to be sensitive to extremely small concentration changes of signaling molecules. The accuracy of such molecular signaling is ultimately limited by the counting…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-06 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

In this paper, a novel time-based modulation scheme is proposed in the time-asynchronous channel for diffusion-based molecular communication systems with drift. Based on this modulation scheme, we demonstrate that the sample variance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Qingchao Li

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 consider a molecular diffusion based communications link that conveys information on the macro-scale (several metres). The motivation is to apply molecular-based communications to challenging electromagnetic environments.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Siyi Wang , Weisi Guo , Song Qiu , Mark D. McDonnell

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication paradigm which uses molecules as information carriers, thereby requiring unconventional transmitter/receiver architectures and modulation/detection techniques. Practical MC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Meltem Civas , Ali Abdali , Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

In this letter, we propose a new molecular modulation scheme for nanonetworks. To evaluate the scheme we introduce a more realistic system model for molecule dissemination and propagation processes based on the Poisson distribution. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Hamidreza Arjmandi , Amin Gohari , Masoume Nasiri Kenari , Farshid Bateni

Molecular communication (MC) allows nanomachines to communicate and cooperate with each other in a fluid environment. The diffusion-based MC is popular but is easily constrained by the transmit distance due to the severe attenuation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Shuo Yuan , Jiaxing Wang , Mugen Peng

In diffusion based molecular communication, the intersymbol interference (ISI) is an important reason for system performance degradation, which is caused by the random movement, out-of-order arrival and indistinguishability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Hui Li , Qingchao Li

This paper presents a Markov-based system model for microfluidic molecular communication (MC) channels. By discretizing the advection-diffusion dynamics, the proposed model establishes a physically consistent state-space formulation. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Pit Hofmann , Fatima Rani , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek

The notion of synthetic molecular communication (MC) refers to the transmission of information via molecules and is largely foreseen for use within the human body, where traditional electromagnetic wave (EM)-based communication is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Timo Jakumeit , Lukas Brand , Jens Kirchner , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive language models by enabling parallel token generation and bidirectional context modeling. However, their inference speed is significantly limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Satyam Goyal , Kushal Patel , Tanush Mittal , Arjun Laxman

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

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

We study non-coherent detection schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems that do not require knowledge of the channel state information (CSI). In particular, we first derive the optimal maximum likelihood (ML) multiple-symbol (MS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , 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 consider target detection in suspicious tissue via diffusive molecular communications (MCs). If a target is present, it continuously and with a constant rate secretes molecules of a specific type, so-called biomarkers,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Reza Mosayebi , Wayan Wicke , Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

In this paper, we consider a diffusive mobile molecular communication (MC) system consisting of a pair of mobile transmitter and receiver nano-machines suspended in a fluid medium, where we model the mobility of the nano-machines by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

This letter introduces a formalism for modeling time-variant channels for diffusive molecular communication systems. In particular, we consider a fluid environment where one transmitter nano-machine and one receiver nano-machine are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Adam Noel , Robert Schober