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The task of maintaining a predefined level of effect in a dynamical plant by applying periodic control actions often arises in e.g. process control and medicine. When the state variables of the plant represent the concentrations of chemical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Alexander Medvedev , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Zhanybai T. Zhusubaliyev

In this paper, a novel fluid dynamics-based approach to channel modeling, which considers liquid droplets as information carriers instead of molecules in the molecular communication (MC) channel, is proposed for practical macroscale MC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Fatih Gulec , Baris Atakan

Biological studies on in vitro cell cultures are of fundamental importance to investigate cells response to external stimuli, such as new drugs for treatment of specific pathologies, or to study communication between electrogenic cells.…

Molecular Communications (MC), transferring information via chemical signals, holds promise for transformative healthcare applications within the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) framework. Despite promising advances toward practical MC…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Maide Miray Albay , Eren Akyol , Fariborz Mirlou , Levent Beker , Murat Kuscu

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

In this letter, we consider a 3D molecular communication via diffusion system (MCvDS) with a single point transmitter and multiple fully-absorbing spherical receivers whose centers are distributed as a Poisson point process (PPP) in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta

Electroporation is a very useful tool for drug delivery into various diseased tissues of the human body. This technique helps to improve the clinical treatment by transferring drugs into the targeted cells rapidly. In electroporation, drug…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Nilay Mondal , D. C. Dalal

Synaptic communication is a natural Molecular Communication (MC) system which may serve as a blueprint for the design of synthetic MC systems. In particular, it features highly specialized mechanisms to enable inter-symbol interference…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Johannes Zeitler , Robert Schober

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

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

In this paper an analytical model is introduced to describe the impulse response of the diffusive channel between a pointwise transmitter and a given fully-absorbing (FA) receiver in a molecular communication (MC) system. The presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Marco Ferrari , Fardad Vakilipoor , Eric Regonesi , Mariangela Rapisarda , Maurizio Magarini

The human aorta is a high-risk area for vascular diseases, which are commonly restored by thoracic endovascular aortic repair. In this paper, we report a promising shear-activated targeted nanoparticle drug delivery strategy to assist in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Yonghui Qiao , Yan Wang , Yanlu Chen , Kun Luo , Jianren Fan

In this paper, we propose novel Transmitter (Tx) models for Molecular Communication (MC) systems based on functionalized Nanoparticles (NPs). Current Tx models often rely on simplifying assumptions for the molecule release and replenishment…

In diffusion-based molecular communication (DMC), one important functionality of a transmitter nano-machine is signal modulation. In particular, the transmitter has to be able to control the release of signaling molecules for modulation of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Hamidreza Arjmandi , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful strategy for planning and control in autonomous mobile robot navigation. However, ensuring safety in real-world deployments remains challenging due to the presence of disturbances and measurement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dennis Benders , Johannes Köhler , Robert Babuška , Javier Alonso-Mora , Laura Ferranti

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

Drug-loaded hydrogels provide a means to deliver pharmaceutical agents to specific sites within the body at a controlled rate. The aim of this paper is to understand how controlled drug release can be achieved by tuning the initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Matthew J. Penn , Matthew G. Hennessy

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

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange through the transmission of signaling molecules (SMs) and holds promise for many innovative applications. However, most existing works in MC rely on simplified transmitter (TX)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Teena tom Dieck , Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Kathrin Castiglione , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

Atomically-thin molybdenum disulfide is emerging as a new nanomaterial with potential applications in the fields of electronic and photonics. Charge carrier dynamics plays an essential role in determining its electronic and optical…

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