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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

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

Recently, molecular communication (MC) has been studied as a micro-scale communication between cells or molecular robots. In previous works, the MC channels in unbounded environment was analyzed. However, many of the experimentally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Taishi Kotsuka , Yutaka Hori

In molecular communications, the direct detection of signaling molecules may be challenging due to a lack of suitable sensors and interference in the environment. Motivated by research in molecular biology, we investigate an indirect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Trang Ngoc Cao , Vahid Jamali , Wayan Wicke , Phee Lep Yeoh , Nikola Zlatanov , Jamie S Evans , Robert Schober

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

In this paper, diffusion-based molecular commu- nication with ligand receptor receivers is studied. Information messages are assumed to be encoded via variations of the con- centration of molecules. The randomness in the ligand reception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Faramarz Fekri

A one-dimensional (1-D) anomalous-diffusive molecular communication channel is considered, wherein the devices (transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX)) can move in either direction along the axis. For modeling the anomalous diffusion of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Lokendra Chouhan , Prabhat Kumar Upadhyay , Prabhat Kumar Sharma , Anas M. Salhab

In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communication channel between two nano-machines is considered. The effect of the amount of memory on performance is characterized, and a simple memory-limited decoder is proposed and its…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Reza Mosayebi , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

Wireless communications systems are impacted by multi-path fading and Doppler shift in dynamic environments, where the channel becomes doubly-dispersive and its estimation becomes an arduous task. Only a few pilots are used for channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Abdul Karim Gizzini , Marwa Chafii

In many natural and artificial devices diffusive transport takes place in confined geometries with corrugated boundaries. Such boundaries cause both entropic and hydrodynamic effects, which have been studied only for the case of spherical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-25 Xiang Yang , Qian Zhu , Chang Liu , Wei Wang , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Peter Hänggi , Hepeng Zhang

Diffusion to capture is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many fields in biology and physical chemistry, with implications as diverse as ligand-receptor binding on eukaryotic and bacterial cells, nutrient uptake by colonies of unicellular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-05 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Sergey D. Traytak , Francesco Piazza

This letter introduces an analytical model that gives the asymptotic cumulative number of molecules absorbed by spherical receivers in a diffusive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) molecular communication (MC) system with pointwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Fardad Vakilipoor , Marco Ferrari , Maurizio Magarini

Realistic models of the components and processes are required for molecular communication (MC) systems. In this paper, a spheroidal receiver structure is proposed for MC that is inspired by the 3D cell cultures known as spheroids being…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Hamidreza Arjmandi , Mohamad Zoofaghari , Mitra Rezaei , Kajsa Kanebratt , Liisa Vilen , David Janzen , Peter Gennemark , Adam Noel

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

A molecule traveling in a realistic propagation environment can experience stochastic interactions with other molecules and the environment boundary. The statistical behavior of some isolated phenomena, such as dilute unbounded molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange at the nano- and microscale, with applications in areas like drug delivery and health monitoring. These event-driven scenarios often require alternatives to traditional transmission.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yaning Zhao , Luca Miszewski , Christian Deppe , Massimiliano Pierobon

Subdiffusion with reaction $A+B\rightarrow B$ is considered in a system which consists of two homogeneous media joined together; the $A$ particles are mobile whereas $B$ are static. Subdiffusion and reaction parameters, which are assumed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

This paper investigates the estimation of different parameters, e.g., propagation distance and flow velocity, by utilizing two fully-absorbing receivers (RXs) in a one-dimensional (1D) environment. The time-varying number of absorbed…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang

In the present manuscript, we formulate a 3D mathematical model describing the capture of a contaminant in an adsorption column. The novelty of our approach involves the description of mass transfer by adsorption via a nonlinear evolution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-29 Maria Aguareles , Francesc Font

The diffusion in two dimensions of non-interacting active particles that follow an arbitrary motility pattern is considered for analysis. Accordingly, the transport equation is generalized to take into account an arbitrary distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-01 Francisco J. Sevilla