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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

Accurate estimation of the distance between the transmitter (TX) and the receiver (RX) in molecular communication (MC) systems can provide faster and more reliable communication. Existing theoretical models in the literature are not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Fatih Gulec , Baris Atakan

Spherical multi-layered structures are prevalent in numerous biological systems and engineered applications, including tumor spheroids, layered tissues, and multi-shell nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery. Despite their widespread…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mitra Rezaei , Michael Chappell , Adam Noel

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication technique that uses molecules to encode and transfer information. Many efforts have been devoted to developing novel modulation techniques for MC based on various distinguishable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-02-22 M. Okan Araz , Ahmet R. Emirdagi , M. Serkan Kopuzlu , Murat Kuscu

Nanoparticle drug carriers play an important role in facilitating efficient targeted drug delivery, i.e., improving treatment success and reducing drug costs and side effects. However, the mobility of nanoparticle drug carriers poses a…

Molecular Communications (MC) uses molecules as information carriers between nanomachines. MC channel in practice can be crowded with different types of molecules, i.e., ligands, which can have similar binding properties causing severe…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular communication (MC) is recently featured as a novel communication tool to connect individual biological nanorobots. It is expected that a large number of nanorobots can form large multi-agent MC systems through MC to accomplish…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Taishi Kotsuka , Yutaka Hori

Microfluidic multipoles (MFMs) have been realized experimentally and hold promise for "open-space" biological and chemical surface processing. Whereas convective flow can readily be predicted using hydraulic-electrical analogies, the design…

This survey paper focuses on modulation aspects of molecular communication, an emerging field focused on building biologically-inspired systems that embed data within chemical signals. The primary challenges in designing these systems are…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Mehmet Sukru Kuran , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Ilker Demirkol , Nariman Farsad , Andrea Goldsmith

Lab-on-chip devices and point-of-care diagnostic chip devices are composed of many different components such as nanosensors that must be able to communicate with other components within the device. Molecular communication is a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nariman Farsad , Andrew W. Eckford , Satoshi Hiyama

Flow velocity is an important characteristic of the fluidic mediums. In this paper, we introduce a molecular based flow velocity meter consisting of a molecule releasing node and a receiver that counts these molecules. We consider both flow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Maryam Farahnak-Ghazani , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

We first highlight theoretically a microfluidic configuration that allows to measure two fundamental parameters describing mass transport through a membrane: the solute permeability coefficient $\mathcal{L}_D$, and the associated reflection…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-09 Julien Renaudeau , Pierre Lidon , Jean-Baptiste Salmon

Molecular Communication (MC) is a pivotal enabler for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). However, current research often relies on super-capable individual agents with complex transceiver architectures that defy the energy and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-27 Boran A. Kilic , Ozgur B. Akan

Data transmission rate in molecular communication systems can be improved by using multiple transmitters and receivers. In molecular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems which use only single type of molecules, the performance at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Nithin V. Sabu , Neeraj Varshney , Abhishek K. Gupta

Molecular Communication (MC) architectures suffer from molecular build-up in the channel if they do not have appropriate reuptake mechanisms. The molecular build-up either leads to intersymbol interference (ISI) or reduces the transmission…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-27 Caglar Koca , Ozgur B. Akan

As one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide, plaque formation in human arteries, known as atherosclerosis, is the focus of many research efforts. Previously, molecular communication (MC) models have been proposed to capture and analyze…

Recent developments in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) are laying the groundwork for innovative applications across the healthcare sector. Nanodevices designed to operate within the body, managed remotely via the internet, are…

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.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-05 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Gee-Yong Suk , Chan-Byoung Chae

Humankind mimics the processes and strategies that nature has perfected and uses them as a model to address its problems. That has recently found a new direction, i.e., a novel communication technology called molecular communication (MC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Dilara Aktas , Beyza Ezgi Ortlek , Meltem Civas , Elham Baradari , Ayse Sila Okcu , Melanie Whitfield , Oktay Cetinkaya , Ozgur Baris Akan

Molecular communication (MC) enables biocompatible and energy-efficient information transfer through chemical signaling, forming a foundational paradigm for emerging applications in the Internet of Nano Things (IoNT) and intrabody…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Dilara Aktas , Ozgur B. Akan