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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

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

In this paper, we study the performance of detectors in a diffusive molecular communication environment where steady uniform flow is present. We derive the expected number of information molecules to be observed in a passive spherical…

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

Diffusive molecular communication (DMC) is envisioned as a promising approach to help realize healthcare applications within bounded biological environments. In this paper, a DMC system within a biological spherical environment is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-15 Hamidreza Arjmandi , Mohammad Zoofaghari , Adam Noel

In diffusion-based molecular communication, information is transferred from a transmitter to a receiver using molecular carriers. The low achievable data rate is the main disadvantage of diffusion-based molecular over radio-based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Foroogh S. Tabataba

In this paper, a simple memory limited transmitter for molecular communication is proposed, in which information is encoded in the diffusion rate of the molecules. Taking advantage of memory, the proposed transmitter reduces the ISI problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Mohammad Movahednasab , Mehdi Soleimanifar , Amin Gohari , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

One of the important applications of molecular communication is the targeted drug delivery process in which the drug molecules are released toward the target (receiver) in a way that the side effects are minimized in the human body. As the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Roya Paridar , Nader Mokari , Eduard Jorswieck , Mohammad Reza Javan

The design and analysis of diffusive molecular communication systems generally requires knowledge of the environment's physical and chemical properties. Furthermore, prospective applications might rely on the timely detection of changes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

In molecular communication (MC) systems, the expected number of molecules observed at the receiver over time after the instantaneous release of molecules by the transmitter is referred to as the channel impulse response (CIR). Knowledge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Christophe Jardin , Heinrich Sticht , Robert Schober

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

This paper studies the impact of a transmitter's molecule generation process on the capacity of a concentration based Molecular Communication (MC) system. Constraints caused by the molecule generation process affect the availability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hamid G. Bafghi , Amin Gohari , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

We investigate multicellular sender receiver systems embedded in hydrogel beads, where diffusible signals mediate interactions among heterogeneous cells. Such systems are modeled by PDE ODE couplings that combine three dimensional diffusion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Taishi Kotsuka , Enoch Yeung

This paper proposes a method for accurately estimating the relative position between two nodes with unknown locations in a diffusion-based molecular communication environment. A specialized node structure is designed, combining a central…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Sangjun Hwang , Chan-Byoung Chae

This article examines recent research in molecular communications from a telecommunications system design perspective. In particular, it focuses on channel models and state-of-the-art physical layer techniques. The goal is to provide a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Weisi Guo , Taufiq Asyhari , Nariman Farsad , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Bin Li , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

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 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…

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 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

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

In molecular communication (MC) systems, the \textit{expected} number of molecules observed at the receiver over time after the instantaneous release of molecules by the transmitter is referred to as the channel impulse response (CIR).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Christophe Jardin , Heinrich Sticht , Robert Schober