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In a diffusion-based molecular communication system, molecules are employed to convey information. When propagation and reception processes are considered in a framework of first passage processes, we need to focus on absorbing receivers.…
Air-based molecular communication (MC) has the potential to be one of the first MC systems to be deployed in real-world applications, enabled by commercially available sensors. However, these sensors usually exhibit non-linear and…
A key challenge in Molecular Communications (MC) is low data transmission rates, which can be addressed by channel multiplexing techniques. One way to achieve channel multiplexing in MC is to leverage the diversity of different molecule…
In diffusion-based molecular communications, messages can be conveyed via the variation in the concentration of molecules in the medium. In this paper, we intend to analyze the achievable capacity in transmission of information from one…
In this paper, we investigate the achievable rate of a diffusive Molecular Communication (MC) channel with fully absorbing receiver, which counts particles absorbed along each symbol interval and resets the counter at every interval…
Diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) systems experience significant reliability losses. To boost the reliability, an MC scheme where multiple receivers (RXs) work cooperatively to decide the signal of a transmitter (TX) by sending…
The design and analysis of diffusive molecular communication systems generally requires knowledge of the environment's physical and chemical properties. Furthermore, prospective applications might rely on the timely detection of changes in…
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…
The nature of molecular transmitter imposes some limitations on the molecule production process and its storage. As the molecules act the role of the information carriers, the limitations affect the transmission process and the system…
By considering potential health problems that a fully covering receiver may cause in vessel-like environments, the implementation of a partially covering receiver is needed. To this end, distribution of hitting location of messenger…
In this paper, we propose a novel design for molecular communication in which both the transmitter and the receiver have, in a 3-dimensional environment, multiple bulges (in RF communication this corresponds to antenna). The proposed system…
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…
We study diversity in one-shot communication over molecular timing channels. We consider a channel model where the transmitter simultaneously releases a large number of information particles, while the information is encoded in the time of…
Molecular communication is a promising solution to enable intra-body communications among nanomachines. However, malicious and non-cooperative receivers can degrade the performance, compromising these systems' security. Analyzing the…
In a molecular communication network, transmitters may encode information in concentration or frequency of signalling molecules. When the signalling molecules reach the receivers, they react, via a set of chemical reactions or a molecular…
Information delivery using chemical molecules is an integral part of biology at multiple distance scales and has attracted recent interest in bioengineering and communication theory. Potential applications include cooperative networks with…
In diffusion-based molecular communication, information transport is governed by diffusion through a fluid medium. The achievable data rates for these channels are very low compared to the radio-based communication system, since diffusion…
Recently, molecular communication (MC) has been studied as a micro-scale communication between cells or molecular robots. In previous works, the MC channels in unbounded environment was analyzed. However, many of the experimentally…
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,…
In biological cells and novel diagnostic devices biochemical receptors need to be sensitive to extremely small concentration changes of signaling molecules. The accuracy of such molecular signaling is ultimately limited by the counting…