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Clinical biosensors with low detection limit hold significant promise in the early diagnosis of debilitating diseases. Recent progress in sensor development has led to the demonstration of detection capable of detecting target molecules…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tuhin Chakrabortty , Chandra R. Murthy , Manoj Varma

A nano abnormality detection scheme (NADS) in molecular nano-networks is studied. This is motivated by the fact that early detection of diseases such as cancer play a crucial role in their successful treatment. The proposed NADS is in fact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Siavash Ghavami , Farshad Lahouti

Discerning the neurotransmitter dysregulation is a hallmark of neurological disorders and diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and multiple sclerosis. The concentration of neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft is particularly…

In this work, we use artificial neural networks (ANNs) to recognize the material composition, sizes of nanoparticles and their concentrations in different media with high accuracy, solely from the absorbance spectrum of a macroscopic…

Nanotechnology is enabling the development of a new generation of devices which are able to sense, process and communicate, while being in the scale of tens to hundreds of cubic nanometers. Such small, imperceptible devices enhance not only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Jennifer Simonjan , Bige D. Unluturk , Ian F. Akyildiz

Diffusion-based and neural communication are two interesting domains in molecular communication. Both of them have distinct advantages and are exploited separately in many works. However, in some cases, neural and diffusion-based ways have…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Peng He , Yuming Mao , Qiang Liu , Kun Yang

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

In this paper, we present a communication protocol between a pair of biological nanomachines, transmitter and receiver, built upon molecular communications in an aqueous environment. In our proposal, the receiver, acting as a control node,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Felicetti , Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Tadashi Nakano , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Due to the limited capabilities of a single bio-nanomachine, complicated tasks can be performed only with the co-operation of multiple bio-nanomachines. In this work, we consider a diffusion-based molecular communication system with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta

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

In this paper, we address the symbol synchronization issue in molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD). Symbol synchronization among chemical sensors and nanomachines is one of the critical challenges to manage complex tasks in the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Mithun Mukherjee , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Bishanka Brata Bhowmik , Jaime Lloret , Yunrong Lv

This work localizes a molecular source in a diffusion based molecular communication (DbMC) system via a set of passive sensors and a fusion center. Molecular source localization finds its applications in future healthcare systems, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Henry Ernest Baidoo-Williams , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Qammer Hussain Abbasi

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

Multi-modal Probabilistic Active Sensing (MMPAS) uses sensor fusion and probabilistic models to control the perception process of robotic sensing platforms. MMPAS is successfully employed in environmental exploration, collaborative mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Luca Varotto , Angelo Cenedese

Molecular communication has a key role to play in future medical applications, including detecting, analyzing, and addressing infectious disease outbreaks. Overcoming inter-symbol interference (ISI) is one of the key challenges in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Xuan Chen , Miaowen Wen , Fei Ji , Yu Huang , Yuankun Tang , Andrew W. Eckford

Detection of small cancer biomarkers with low molecular weight and a low concentration range has always been challenging yet urgent in many clinical applications such as diagnosing early-stage cancer, monitoring treatment and detecting…

Nuclei detection is an important task in the histology domain as it is a main step toward further analysis such as cell counting, cell segmentation, study of cell connections, etc. This is a challenging task due to the complex texture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Navid Alemi Koohababni , Mostafa Jahanifar , Ali Gooya , Nasir Rajpoot

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

Recently, Molecular Communication (MC) has been recognized as an enabling technology for nanonetworks where MC is envisioned to enable nanorobots to achieve sophisticated and complex tasks in the human body for promising medical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 AbdulAziz Al-Helali , Ben Liang , Nidal Nasser

Within the domain of molecular communications, researchers mimic the techniques in nature to come up with alternative communication methods for collaborating nanomachines. This work investigates the channel transfer function for molecular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-18 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Akif Cem Heren , Tuna Tugcu , Chan-Byoung Chae