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In molecular communications, the direct detection of signaling molecules may be challenging due to a lack of suitable sensors and interference in the environment. Motivated by research in molecular biology, we investigate an indirect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Trang Ngoc Cao , Vahid Jamali , Wayan Wicke , Phee Lep Yeoh , Nikola Zlatanov , Jamie S Evans , 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…

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

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…

Droplet-based communications has been investigated as a more robust alternative to diffusion-based molecular communications (MC), yet most existing demonstrations employ large "plug-like" droplets or simple T-junction designs for droplet…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Eren Akyol , Aysa Azmoudeh , Iman Mokari Bolhassan , Pelin Kubra Isgor , Murat Kuscu

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

A diffusion-based molecular communication system has two major components: the diffusion in the medium, and the ligand-reception. Information bits, encoded in the time variations of the concentration of molecules, are conveyed to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

In this paper, a cooperative diffusion-based molecular communication system is considered where distributed receivers collaboratively determine a transmitter's signal. In this system, the receivers first make local hard decisions about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

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

The Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), envisioned as a revolutionary healthcare paradigm, shows promise for epidemic control. This paper explores the potential of using molecular communication (MC) to address the challenges in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xuan Chen , Yu Huang , Miaowen Wen , Shahid Mumtaz , Fatih Gulec , Anwer Al-Dulaimi , Andrew W. Eckford

This paper proposes a multi-user Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) near-field access scheme, inspired by the orthogonal characteristics of multi-mode vortex waves. A Reconfigurable Meta-surface (RM) is ingeniously employed as the gateway…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Yufei Zhao , Qihao Lv , Yuanbin Chen , Afkar Mohamed Ismail , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

Molecular communication is a new field of communication where molecules are used to transfer information. Among the proposed methods, molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is particularly effective. One of the main challenges in MCvD…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Burcu Tepekule , Ali E. Pusane , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae , Tuna Tugcu

Frequency domain (FD) multi-user detection (MUD) has been shown to be an effective means of approaching the theoretical per-user capacity for single carrier modulation (SCM) schemes in massive MIMO scenarios with highly dispersive channels.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Brent A. Kenney , Arslan J. Majid , Hussein Moradi , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

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

Mobile molecular communication (MC) links with counting receivers are sensitive to transmitter--receiver geometry especially when nodes are mobile. We study binary detection from within-symbol count observations with unknown finite-memory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Shaojie Zhang , Ozgur B. Akan

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

The design of communication systems capable of processing and exchanging information through molecules and chemical processes is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field, which holds the promise to revolutionize how we realize computing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Dadi Bi , Yansha Deng , Massimiliano Pierobon , Arumugam Nallanathan

As a new candidate waveform for the next generation wireless communications, orthogonal chirp division multiplexing (OCDM) has attracted growing attention for its ability to achieve full diversity in uncoded transmission, and its robustness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yun Liu , Fei Ji , Miaowen Wen , Hua Qing

This paper presents a stochastic analysis of the time-variant channel impulse response (CIR) of a three dimensional diffusive mobile molecular communication (MC) system where the transmitter, the absorbing receiver, and the molecules can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Trang Ngoc Cao , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Wayan Wicke , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jamie Evans , Robert Schober

A cost-effective millimeter-wave (MMW) joint radar-communication (JRC) system with super resolution is proposed and experimentally demonstrated, using optical heterodyne up-conversion and self-coherent detection down-conversion techniques.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Wenlin Bai , Peixuan Li , Xihua Zou , Ningyuan Zhong , Wei Pan , Lianshan Yan , Bin Luo

In this paper, a novel fluid dynamics-based approach to channel modeling, which considers liquid droplets as information carriers instead of molecules in the molecular communication (MC) channel, is proposed for practical macroscale MC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Fatih Gulec , Baris Atakan