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We consider a molecular communication system comprised of a transmitter, an absorbing receiver, and an interference source. Assuming amplitude modulation, we analyze the dependence of the bit error rate (BER) on the detection interval,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Trang Ngoc Cao , Nikola Zlatanov , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jamie S. Evans

This paper studies distance estimation for diffusive molecular communication. The Cramer-Rao lower bound on the variance of the distance estimation error is derived. The lower bound is derived for a physically unbounded environment with…

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

Purpose: The goal of this article is to introduce a technique to measure the velocity distribution of water inside each voxel of an MR image. The method is based on the use of motion sensitizing gradients with changing first moment to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Luis Hernandez-Garcia , Alberto L. Vazquez , Doug C. Noll

In this paper, a novel time-based modulation scheme is proposed in the time-asynchronous channel for diffusion-based molecular communication systems with drift. Based on this modulation scheme, we demonstrate that the sample variance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Qingchao Li

We consider utility maximization in networks where the sources do not employ flow control and may consequently overload the network. In the absence of flow control at the sources, some packets will inevitably have to be dropped when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-27 Chih-ping Li , Eytan Modiano

This work studies optimal detection for communication over diffusion-based molecular timing (DBMT) channels. The transmitter simultaneously releases multiple information particles, where the information is encoded in the time of release.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Yonathan Murin , Nariman Farsad , Mainak Chowdhury , Andrea Goldsmith

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

Inspired by biological communication systems, molecular communication has been proposed as a viable scheme to communicate between nano-sized devices separated by a very short distance. Here, molecules are released by the transmitter into…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Sachin Kadloor , Raviraj S. Adve , Andrew W. Eckford

Accurate velocity estimation is critical in mobile robotics, particularly for driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. Wheel odometry fused with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data is a widely used method for velocity estimation;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Liam Boyle , Jonas Kühne , Nicolas Baumann , Niklas Bastuck , Michele Magno

This work presents a novel flow-based molecular communication (MC) testbed using spectral sensing and ink intensity estimation to enable real-time multi-molecule (MUMO) transmission. MUMO communication opens up crucial opportunities for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Alexander Wietfeld , Sebastian Schmidt , Wolfgang Kellerer

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, offering faster sampling and simpler training by learning continuous flows governed by ordinary differential equations. Despite growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mudit Gaur , Prashant Trivedi , Shuchin Aeron , Amrit Singh Bedi , George K. Atia , Vaneet Aggarwal

Unsupervised optical flow estimators based on deep learning have attracted increasing attention due to the cost and difficulty of annotating for ground truth. Although performance measured by average End-Point Error (EPE) has improved over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Shuzhi Yu , Hannah Halin Kim , Shuai Yuan , Carlo Tomasi

We study non-coherent detection schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems that do not require knowledge of the channel state information (CSI). In particular, we first derive the optimal maximum likelihood (ML) multiple-symbol (MS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

In Microscopic Particle Image Velocimetry ($\mu$PIV), velocity fields in microchannels are sampled over finite volumes within which the velocity fields themselves may vary significantly. In the past, this has limited measurements often to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 P. W. Bryant , R. F. Neumann , M. J. B. Moura , M. Steiner , M. S. Carvalho , C. Feger

Based on machine learning techniques, we propose a novel method to estimate flow fields using only floating sensor locations. This method does not require either ground-truth velocity fields or governing equations for fluid flows, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Tomoya Oura , Reno Miura , Koji Fukagata

In this paper, we introduce a novel mechanism that uses machine learning techniques to detect water leaks in pipes. The proposed simple and low-cost mechanism is designed that can be easily installed on building pipes with various sizes.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hossein Pourmehrani , Reshad Hosseini , Hadi Moradi

In this paper, we consider a mobile molecular communication (MC) system consisting of two mobile nanomachines, a transmitter and a receiver, propelled by a positive drift velocity and Brownian motion in a realistic blood-vessel-type flow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Dongliang Jing , Yongzhao Li , Andrew W. Eckford

Neural network observers (NNOs) are proposed for real-time estimation of fluid flows, addressing a key challenge in flow control: obtaining real-time flow states from a limited set of sparse and noisy sensor data. For this task, we propose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-06 Tarcísio C. Déda , William R. Wolf , Scott T. M. Dawson , Brener L. O. Ramos

Fluid velocimetry is fundamental to a breadth of applications spanning academia and industry, however velocimetry at high temporal resolution is often prohibitively costly. Here, we introduce a Fast and InExpensive Velocimeter (FIEVel)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-31 Robert Hunt , Eli Silver , Daniel M. Harris

Diffusion model (DM)-based channel estimation, which generates channel samples via a posteriori sampling stepwise with denoising process, has shown potential in high-precision channel state information (CSI) acquisition. However, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wenkai Liu , Nan Ma , Jianqiao Chen , Xiaoxuan Qi , Yuhang Ma