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Molecular communication (MC) provides a foundational framework for information transmission in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), where efficiency and reliability are crucial. However, the inherent limitations of molecular channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Hanlin Cai , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular communication is a novel approach for data transmission between miniaturized devices, especially in contexts where electrical signals are to be avoided. The communication is based on sending molecules (or other particles) at nano…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Max Bartunik , Jens Kirchner , Oliver Keszocze

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can potentially resolve many of the interference issues that appear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Future cellular networks are expected to support new communication paradigms such as machine-type communication (MTC) services along with conventional human-type communication (HTC) services. This requires base stations to serve a large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Kamil Senel , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology to empower the next-generation communications. However, XL-MIMO, which is still in its early stage of research, has been designed with a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Wei E. I. Sha , Bo Ai , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah

The idea of media-based modulation (MBM) is to embed information in the channel states via intentional perturbations of the transmission media. This article covers a broad range of topics regarding MBM, expanding on its benefits and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ehsan Seifi , Amir K. Khandani , Mehran Atamanesh

Molecular communication (MC) is a kind of communication technology based on biochemical molecules for internet of bio-nano things, in which the biochemical molecule is used as the information carrier for the interconnection of nano-devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jiaxing Wang , Bonan Yin , Mugen Peng

The sixth-generation (6G) network is envisioned to integrate communication and sensing functions, so as to improve the spectrum efficiency (SE) and support explosive novel applications. Although the similarities of wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Xinran Fang , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge , Yan Zhang

Cooperative molecular communication (MC) is a promising technology for facilitating communication between nanomachines in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) field. However, the performance of IoBNT is limited by the availability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongliang Jing , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford

In diffusion-based molecular communication, information particles locomote via a diffusion process, characterized by random movement and heavy tail distribution for the random arrival time. As a result, the molecular communication shows…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Changmin Lee , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae , Nariman Farsad , Andrea Goldsmith

Molecular communication (MC) engineering is inspired by the use of chemical signals as information carriers in cell biology. The biological nature of chemical signaling makes MC a promising methodology for interdisciplinary applications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Dadi Bi , Apostolos Almpanis , Adam Noel , Yansha Deng , Robert Schober

Massive MIMO is considered to be one of the key technologies in the emerging 5G systems, but also a concept applicable to other wireless systems. Exploiting the large number of degrees of freedom (DoFs) of massive MIMO essential for…

Multiple access technology played an important role in wireless communication in the last decades: it increases the capacity of the channel and allows different users to access the system simultaneously. However, the conventional multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yongpeng Wu , Xiqi Gao , Shidong Zhou , Wei Yang , Yury Polyanskiy , Giuseppe Caire

Antennas of transmitters and receivers have been manipulated to increase the capacity of transmission and reception of signals. Using many elements in antennas to shape beams and direct nulls in a particular point for optimum signal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Mboli Sechang Julius

In this article, we present the major challenges of future machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular networks such as spectrum scarcity problem, support for low-power, low-cost, and numerous number of devices. As being an integral part of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Abdelmohsen Ali , Walaa Hamouda , Murat Uysal

This paper takes a new look at Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) through the lens of the dynamic cooperation cluster framework from the Network MIMO literature. The purpose is to identify and address scalability issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

MIMO mobile systems, with a large number of antennas at the base-station side, enable the concurrent transmission of multiple, spatially separated information streams and, therefore, enable improved network throughput and connectivity both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Konstantinos Nikitopoulos , Marcin Filo , Chathura Jayawardena , Rahim Tafazolli

Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) is envisioned to be a heterogeneous network of nanoscale and biological devices, so called Bio-Nano Things (BNTs), communicating via non-conventional means, e.g., molecular communications (MC), in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Murat Kuscu , Bige D. Unluturk

To meet the future demand for huge traffic volume of wireless data service, the research on the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems has been undertaken in recent years. It is expected that the spectral and energy efficiencies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Dongming Wang , Yu Zhang , Hao Wei , Xiaohu You , Xiqi Gao , Jiangzhou Wang

Multiple antennas have been exploited for spatial multiplexing and diversity transmission in a wide range of communication applications. However, most of the advances in the design of high speed wireless multiple-input multiple output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Yongpeng Wu , Chengshan Xiao , Zhi Ding , Xiqi Gao , Shi Jin