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Molecular communication (MC) offers a groundbreaking approach to communication inspired by biological signaling. It is particularly suited for environments where traditional electromagnetic methods fail, such as fluid mediums or within the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-18 Aravind Muraleedharan , Abhishek K. Gupta

In this work, we consider diffusion-based molecular communication with and without drift between two static nano-machines. We employ type-based information encoding, releasing a single molecule per information bit. At the receiver, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Werner Haselmayr , Neeraj Varshney , A. Taufiq Asyhari , Andreas Springer , Weisi Guo

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

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 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

We consider anomalous diffusion for molecular communication with a passive receiver. We first consider the probability density function of molecules' location at a given time in a space of arbitrary dimension. The expected number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Dung Phuong Trinh , Youngmin Jeong , Sang-Hyo Kim

Numerous biological functions-such as enzymatic catalysis, the immune response system, and the DNA-protein regulatory network-rely on the ability of molecules to specifically recognize target molecules within a large pool of similar…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-27 Yonatan Savir , Tsvi Tlusty

We consider a multiuser diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system where multiple spatially distributed transmitter (TX)-receiver (RX) pairs establish point-to-point communication links employing the same type of signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

In optical wireless scattering communication, received signal in each symbol interval is captured by a photomultiplier tube (PMT) and then sampled through very short but finite interval sampling. The resulting samples form a signal vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Difan Zou , Chen Gong , Zhengyuan Xu

One of the most fascinating aspects of quantum mechanics is the principle impossibility of deterministic errorless discrimination of nonorthogonal signals, such as coherent states. On the one hand, it prevents perfect cloning of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Denis Sych , Gerd Leuchs

This paper investigates the channel impulse response (CIR), i.e., the molecule hitting rate, of a molecular communication (MC) system employing an absorbing receiver (RX) covered by multiple non overlapping receptors. In this system,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Stuart T. Johnston , Mattew Faria , Nan Yang , Robert Schober

Symbol synchronization refers to the estimation of the start of a symbol interval and is needed for reliable detection. In this paper, we develop several symbol synchronization schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems where we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

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

This paper analyzes the channel impulse response of an absorbing receiver (RX) covered by multiple non-overlapping heterogeneous receptors with different sizes and arbitrary locations in a molecular communication system. In this system, a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Stuart T. Johnston , Matthew Faria , Nan Yang , Robert Schober

Symbol synchronization refers to the estimation of the start of a symbol interval and is needed for reliable detection. In this paper, we develop a symbol synchronization framework for molecular communication (MC) systems where we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

This paper presents an analysis of how to calculate bit error ratio (BER) with physical explanation for optically pre-amplified DPSK receivers using optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) demodulation and balanced detection. It is shown…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Xiupu Zhang , Zhenqian Qu , Lei Wang

Iterative message passing detection based on expectation propagation(EP) has demonstrated near-optimum performance in many signal processing and communication scenarios. The method remains feasible even for channel impulse responses (CIRs),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jannis Clausius , Luca Schmid , Laurent Schmalen , Stephan ten Brink

In this paper, we consider a molecular diffusion based communications link that conveys information on the macro-scale (several metres). The motivation is to apply molecular-based communications to challenging electromagnetic environments.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Siyi Wang , Weisi Guo , Song Qiu , Mark D. McDonnell

In this paper, we present an analytical model for the diffusive molecular communication (MC) system with a reversible adsorption receiver in a fluid environment. The widely used concentration shift keying (CSK) is considered for modulation.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Yansha Deng , Adam Noel , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Karen C. Cheung

In a diffusion-based molecular communication network, transmitters and receivers communicate by using signalling molecules (or ligands) in a fluid medium. This paper assumes that the transmitter uses different chemical reactions to generate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Chun Tung Chou