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In this paper, we present an analytical framework to derive the performance of a molecular communication system where a transmitter bio-nano-machine (TBN) is communicating with a fully-absorbing spherical receiver bio-nano-machine (RBN) in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta

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

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

A molecular communication channel is determined by the received signal. Received signal models form the basis for studies focused on modulation, receiver design, capacity, and coding depend on the received signal models. Therefore, it is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-21 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Changmin Lee , Yae Jee Cho , Chan-Byoung Chae

Synthetic molecular communication (MC) is a new communication engineering paradigm which is expected to enable revolutionary applications such as smart drug delivery and real-time health monitoring. The design and implementation of…

This paper presents a stochastic analysis of the time-variant channel impulse response (CIR) of a three dimensional diffusive mobile molecular communication (MC) system where the transmitter, the absorbing receiver, and the molecules can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Trang Ngoc Cao , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Wayan Wicke , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jamie Evans , Robert Schober

This paper considers the scenario of a targeted drug delivery system, which consists of deploying a number of biological nanomachines close to a biological target (e.g. a tumor), able to deliver drug molecules in the diseased area. Suitably…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Molecular communication (MC) is an emerging paradigm that enables data transmission through biochemical signals rather than traditional electromagnetic waves. This approach is particularly promising for environments where conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Vida Gholamiyan , Yaning Zhao , Wafa Labidi , Holger Boche , Christian Deppe

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

Exact analytical channel models for molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) systems involving multiple fully absorbing receivers (FARs) in a three-dimensional (3- D) medium are hard to obtain due to the mathematical intractability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nithin V. Sabu , Neeraj Varshney , Abhishek K. Gupta

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

Chemical reactions inside cells are generally considered to happen within fixed-size compartments. Needless to say, cells and their compartments are highly dynamic. Thus, such stringent assumptions may not reflect biochemical reality, and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-17 Atiyo Ghosh , Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago

In this paper, we propose adding enzymes to the propagation environment of a diffusive molecular communication system as a strategy for mitigating intersymbol interference. The enzymes form reaction intermediates with information molecules…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

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

The design of biologically-inspired wireless communication systems using bacteria as the basic element of the system is initially motivated by a phenomenon called \emph{Quorum Sensing}. Due to high randomness in the individual behavior of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

Most diffusion based molecular channels suffer from low information capacity due to the structure of the diffusion environment. To address this issue, this paper studies the capacity of the diffusion based molecular communication by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Farhad Mirkarimi , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

In this paper, we consider abnormality detection via diffusive molecular communications (MCs) for a network consisting of several sensors and a fusion center (FC). If a sensor detects an abnormality, it injects into the medium a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Reza Mosayebi , Vahid Jamali , Nafiseh Ghoroghchian , Robert Schober , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Mahdieh Mehrabi

Molecular Communication (MC) is a communication strategy that uses molecules as carriers of information, and is widely used by biological cells. As an interdisciplinary topic, it has been studied by biologists, communication theorists and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Amin Gohari , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

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

How many times a diffusing molecule can permeate across a membrane or be adsorbed on a substrate? We employ the encounter-based approach to find the statistics of adsorption or permeation events for molecular diffusion in a general…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Denis S. Grebenkov