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In a molecular communication network, transmitters may encode information in concentration or frequency of signalling molecules. When the signalling molecules reach the receivers, they react, via a set of chemical reactions or a molecular…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-23 Chun Tung Chou

Molecular Communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication method based on the exchange of molecules for information transfer among nanoscale devices. MC has been extensively studied from various aspects in the literature; however, the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-26 M. Kuscu , O. B. Akan

In this paper, we propose a novel concept for engineered molecular communication (MC) systems inspired by animal olfaction. We focus on a multi-user scenario where several transmitters wish to communicate with a central receiver. We assume…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Vahid Jamali , Helene M. Loos , Andrea Buettner , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Molecular communication (MC) allows nanomachines to communicate and cooperate with each other in a fluid environment. The diffusion-based MC is popular but is easily constrained by the transmit distance due to the severe attenuation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Shuo Yuan , Jiaxing Wang , Mugen Peng

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

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…

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 Communication (MC) channels are characterized by significant memory and nonlinear dynamics arising from diffusion and receptor kinetics. While often viewed as impairments to reliable data transmission, this work introduces a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mustafa Uzun , Kaan Burak Ikiz , Murat Kuscu

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

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

Molecular communication is a biologically-inspired method of communication with attractive properties for microscale and nanoscale devices. In molecular communication, messages are transmitted by releasing a pattern of molecules at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Andrew W. Eckford

Organoids have garnered attention due to their effectiveness in modeling the 3D structure of organ interactions. However, the communication engineering perspective has received relatively little attention. One way to achieve organoids…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Shaojie Zhang , Ozgur B. Akan

This paper studies the problem of receiver modeling in molecular communication systems. We consider the diffusive molecular communication channel between a transmitter nano-machine and a receiver nano-machine in a fluid environment. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Andreas Burkovski , Robert Schober

This paper studies microfluidic molecular communication receivers with finite-capacity Langmuir adsorption driven by an effective surface concentration. In the reaction-limited regime, we derive a closed-form single-pulse response kernel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Pit Hofmann , Martín Schottlender , Fatima Rani , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek

In this paper, we consider the diffusive molecular communication channel between a transmitter nano-machine and a receiver nano-machine in a fluid environment. The information molecules released by the transmitter nano-machine into the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Hamidreza Arjmanidi , Andreas Burkovski , Robert Schober

Molecular communication (MC) is a paradigm that employs molecules as information transmitters, hence, requiring unconventional transceivers and detection techniques for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). In this study, we provide a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-27 O. Tansel Baydas , Ozgur B. Akan

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

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

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

This paper develops a molecular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework that exploits the same molecular observations for physical-parameter sensing and data detection. As a representative instantiation, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Martín Schottlender , Veronika Volkova , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Pit Hofmann