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This paper introduces a novel optically controllable molecular communication (MC) transmitter (TX) design based on vesicular nanodevices (NDs). The NDs are functionalized for the controlled release of signaling molecules (SMs) via…

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange through the transmission of signaling molecules (SMs) and holds promise for many innovative applications. However, most existing works in MC rely on simplified transmitter (TX)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Teena tom Dieck , Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Kathrin Castiglione , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

In conventional molecular communication (MC) systems, the signaling molecules used for information transmission are stored, released, and then replenished by a transmitter (TX). However, the replenishment of signaling molecules at the TX is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Lukas Brand , Moritz Garkisch , Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Kathrin Castiglione , Robert Schober

In conventional molecular communication (MC) systems, the signaling molecules used for information transmission are stored, released, and then replenished by a transmitter (TX). However, the replenishment of signaling molecules at the TX is…

This paper proposes a novel imperfect spherical transmitter (TX) model, namely the membrane fusion (MF)-based TX, that adopts MF between a vesicle and the TX membrane to release molecules encapsulated within the vesicle. For the MF-based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang

This paper proposes a novel imperfect transmitter (TX) model, namely the membrane fusion (MF)-based TX, that adopts MF between a vesicle and the TX membrane to release molecules encapsulated within the vesicle. For the MF-based TX, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Yiran Wang , Nan Yang

Molecular Communication (MC) is an important nanoscale communication paradigm, which is employed for the interconnection of the nanomachines (NMs) to form nanonetworks. A transmitter NM (TN) sends the information symbols by emitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Baris Atakan , Fatih Gulec

Molecular communication (MC) is a new communication engineering paradigm where molecules are employed as information carriers. MC systems are expected to enable new revolutionary applications such as sensing of target substances in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Wayan Wicke , Adam Noel , Robert Schober

This paper investigates a spherical transmitter (TX) with a membrane covered by heterogeneous receptors of varying sizes and arbitrary locations for molecular communication (MC), where molecules are encapsulated within vesicles and released…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Xinyu Huang , Yu Huang , Miaowen Wen , Nan Yang , Robert Schober

Although visionary applications of molecular communication (MC), such as long-term continuous health monitoring by cooperative in-body nanomachines, have been proposed, MC is still in its infancy when it comes to practical implementation.…

This paper designs a molecule harvesting transmitter (TX) model, where the surface of a spherical TX is covered by heterogeneous receptors with different sizes and arbitrary locations. If molecules hit any receptor, they are absorbed by the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xinyu Huang , Yu Huang , Miaowen Wen , Nan Yang , Robert Schober

The notion of synthetic molecular communication (MC) refers to the transmission of information via signaling molecules and is foreseen to enable innovative medical applications in the human cardiovascular system (CVS). Crucially, the design…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Timo Jakumeit , Lukas Brand , Jens Kirchner , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

In this paper, we propose a novel concept for engineered molecular communication (MC) systems inspired by animal olfaction. We focus on a multi-user scenario where several transmitters wish to communicate with a central receiver. We assume…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Vahid Jamali , Helene M. Loos , Andrea Buettner , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Symbol synchronization refers to the estimation of the start of a symbol interval and is needed for reliable detection. In this paper, we develop a symbol synchronization framework for molecular communication (MC) systems where we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

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…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

In this paper, we present a communication protocol between a pair of biological nanomachines, transmitter and receiver, built upon molecular communications in an aqueous environment. In our proposal, the receiver, acting as a control node,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Felicetti , Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Tadashi Nakano , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Molecular communication (MC) is an emerging paradigm that takes inspiration from biological processes, enabling communication at the nanoscale and facilitating the development of the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). Traditional models…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Shaojie Zhang , Ozgur B. Akan

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

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…

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