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Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological neural systems, has emerged as a promising approach for ultra-energy-efficient data processing by leveraging analog neuron structures and spike-based computation. However, its application in…

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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

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

In this paper, we develop a mathematical framework for modeling the time-variant stochastic channels of diffusive mobile MC systems. In particular, we consider a diffusive mobile MC system consisting of a pair of transmitter and receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communication channel is modeled in presence of a probabilistic absorber. The probabilistic absorber is an absorber which absorbs molecules upon collision with probability q. With random walk…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-09-19 S Salehi , NS Moayedian , E Alarcón

This paper presents an analytical comparison of active and passive receiver models in diffusive molecular communication. In the active model, molecules are absorbed when they collide with the receiver surface. In the passive model, the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Adam Noel , Yansha Deng , Dimitrios Makrakis , Abdelhakim Hafid

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…

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Membrane receptors for neuromodulators (NM) are highly regulated in their distribution and efficacy - a phenomenon which influences the individual cell's response to central signals of NM release. Even though NM receptor regulation is…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Gabriele Scheler

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

In this paper, the error performance achieved by cooperative detection among K distributed receivers in a diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system is analyzed and optimized. In this system, the receivers first make local hard…

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Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication technique that uses molecules to transfer information among bio-nano devices. In this paper, we focus on the detection problem for biological MC receivers employing ligand…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

The performance of molecular communication is significantly impacted by the reception process of the messenger molecules. The receptors' size and density, however, have yet to be investigated. In this letter, we analyze the effect of…

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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

Molecular communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication method based on the exchange of molecules for information transfer among nanoscale devices. Although MC has been extensively studied from various aspects, limitations imposed by…

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Neurotransmitter receptor molecules, concentrated in synaptic membrane domains along with scaffolds and other kinds of proteins, are crucial for signal transmission across chemical synapses. In common with other membrane protein domains,…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-19 Yiwei Li , Osman Kahraman , Christoph A. Haselwandter

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…

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The density of synaptic receptors in front of presynaptic release sites is stabilized in the presence of scaffold proteins, but the receptors and scaffold molecules have local exchanges with characteristic times shorter than that of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ken Sekimoto , Antoine Triller

Neural receivers have demonstrated strong performance in wireless communication systems. However, their effectiveness typically depends on access to large-scale, scenario-specific channel data for training, which is often difficult to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Xinjie Li , Jing Zhang , Peiwen Jiang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Information delivery using chemical molecules is an integral part of biology at multiple distance scales and has attracted recent interest in bioengineering and communication. The collective signal strength at the receiver (i.e., the…

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