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Diffusive molecular communications (DiMC) have recently gained attention as a candidate for nano- to micro- and macro-scale communications due to its simplicity and energy efficiency. As signal propagation is solely enabled by Brownian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

In synaptic molecular communication, the activation of postsynaptic receptors by neurotransmitters (NTs) is governed by a stochastic reaction-diffusion process and, hence, inherently random. It is currently not fully understood how this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Robert Schober

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

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

It is envisioned that the sixth generation (6G) and beyond 6G (B6G) wireless communication networks will enable global coverage in space, air, ground, and sea. In this case, both base stations and users can be mobile and will tend to move…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Yue Yang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Jie Huang , John Thompson , H. Vincent Poor

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

Motivated by the numerous healthcare applications of molecular communication (MC) inside blood vessels, this work considers relay/cooperative nanomachine (CN)-assisted mobile MC between a source nanomachine (SN) and a destination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Neeraj Varshney , Adarsh Patel , Werner Haselmayr , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Pramod K. Varshney , Weisi Guo

In this paper, we consider a diffusive mobile molecular communication (MC) system consisting of a pair of mobile transmitter and receiver nano-machines suspended in a fluid medium, where we model the mobility of the nano-machines by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

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

Molecular communication (MC), one of the emerging techniques in the field of communication, is entering a new phase following several decades of foundational research. Recently, attention has shifted toward MC in liquid media, particularly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yun-Feng Lo , Changmin Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae

Introduced with the advent of statistical wireless channel models for high mobility communications and having a profound role in communication-centric (CC) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), the doubly-dispersive (DD) channel…

Analytical modeling of field-assisted molecular communication under dynamic electric fields is fundamentally challenging due to the coupling between stochastic transport and complex boundary geometries, which renders conventional partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Po-Chun Chou , Yen-Chi Lee , Chun-An Yang , Chia-Han Lee , Ping-Cheng Yeh

Molecular communication (MC) is a model of information transmission where the signal is transmitted by information-carrying molecules through their physical transport from a transmitter to a receiver through a communication channel. Prior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Phanindra Dewan , Sumantra Sarkar

Realistic models of the components and processes are required for molecular communication (MC) systems. In this paper, a spheroidal receiver structure is proposed for MC that is inspired by the 3D cell cultures known as spheroids being…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Hamidreza Arjmandi , Mohamad Zoofaghari , Mitra Rezaei , Kajsa Kanebratt , Liisa Vilen , David Janzen , Peter Gennemark , Adam Noel

This paper focuses on the derivation of the distribution of diffused particles absorbed by an agent in a bounded environment. In particular, we analogously consider to derive the impulse response of a molecular communication channel in 2-D…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Fatih Dinc , Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz , Ecda Erol , Dilara Gokay , Ezgi Tekgul , Ali Emre Pusane , Tuna Tugcu

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

Spherical multi-layered structures are prevalent in numerous biological systems and engineered applications, including tumor spheroids, layered tissues, and multi-shell nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery. Despite their widespread…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mitra Rezaei , Michael Chappell , Adam Noel

We propose and analyse a model predictive control (MPC) strategy tailored for networks of underwater agents tasked with maintaining formation while following a shared path and using acoustic communication channels. The strategy accommodates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Emil Wengle , Damiano Varagnolo

Recent advances in deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) have shown promise for end-to-end semantic image transmission. However, most existing schemes primarily focus on optimizing pixel-wise metrics, which often fail to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai