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In this paper, a cooperative diffusion-based molecular communication system is considered where distributed receivers collaboratively determine a transmitter's signal. In this system, the receivers first make local hard decisions about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

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

The study of Molecular Communication(MC) is more and more prevalence, and channel model of MC plays an important role in the MC System. Since different propagation environment and modulation techniques produce different channel model, most…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Pengfei Lu , Yang You , Bo Liu , Zhenqiang Wu

In this paper, we develop a mathematical framework for modeling the time-variant stochastic channels of diffusive mobile MC systems. In particular, we consider a diffusive mobile MC system consisting of a pair of transmitter and receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , 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

Molecular Communications (MC) underpins signaling in biological systems, enabling information transfer through biochemical molecules. The prospect of engineering this natural communication mechanism has inspired the Internet of Bio-Nano…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Murat Kuscu

This paper presents a novel physics-based model for signal propagation in closed-loop molecular communication (MC) systems, which are particularly relevant for many envisioned biomedical applications, such as health monitoring or drug…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Lukas Brand , Fardad Vakilipoor , Sören Botsch , Timo Jakumeit , Sebastian Lotter , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

In Diffusive Molecular Communication (DMC), information is transmitted by diffusing molecules. Synaptic signaling, as a natural implementation of this paradigm, encompasses functional components that, once understood, can facilitate the…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-26 Sebastian Lotter , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

Molecular communication (MC), one of the emerging techniques in the field of communication, is entering a new phase following several decades of foundational research. Recently, attention has shifted toward MC in liquid media, particularly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yun-Feng Lo , Changmin Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

Molecular Communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication paradigm utilizing molecules for information transfer. Research on this unconventional communication technique has recently started to transition from theoretical investigations…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ali Abdali , Murat Kuscu

This letter develops a one-dimensional (1D) diffusion-based molecular communication system to analyze channel responses between a single transmitter (TX) and two fully-absorbing receivers (RXs). Incorporating molecular degradation in the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang

Molecular communication (MC) engineering is inspired by the use of chemical signals as information carriers in cell biology. The biological nature of chemical signaling makes MC a promising methodology for interdisciplinary applications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Dadi Bi , Apostolos Almpanis , Adam Noel , Yansha Deng , Robert Schober

Molecular communications is a promising framework for the design of controlled-release drug delivery systems. In this framework, drug carriers are modeled as transmitters, the diseased cells as absorbing receivers, and the channel between…

In a diffusion-based molecular communication system, molecules are employed to convey information. When propagation and reception processes are considered in a framework of first passage processes, we need to focus on absorbing receivers.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-05 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Gee-Yong Suk , Chan-Byoung Chae

We consider anomalous diffusion for molecular communication with a passive receiver. We first consider the probability density function of molecules' location at a given time in a space of arbitrary dimension. The expected number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Dung Phuong Trinh , Youngmin Jeong , Sang-Hyo Kim

This work presents a novel diffusion based dual-phase molecular communication system where the source leverages multiple cooperating nanomachines to improve the end-to-end reliability of communication. The Neyman-Pearson Likelihood Ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Neeraj Varshney , Adarsh Patel , Aditya K. Jagannatham

Molecular communication (MC) is a bio-inspired method of transmitting information using biochemical signals, promising for novel medical, agricultural, and environmental applications at the intersection of bio-, nano-, and communication…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Eren Akyol , Ahmet Baha Ozturk , Iman Mokari Bolhassan , Murat Kuscu

By considering potential health problems that a fully covering receiver may cause in vessel-like environments, the implementation of a partially covering receiver is needed. To this end, distribution of hitting location of messenger…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Meriç Turan , Mehmet Sukru Kuran , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Ilker Demirkol , Tuna Tugcu

This survey paper focuses on modulation aspects of molecular communication, an emerging field focused on building biologically-inspired systems that embed data within chemical signals. The primary challenges in designing these systems are…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Mehmet Sukru Kuran , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Ilker Demirkol , Nariman Farsad , Andrea Goldsmith