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Molecular Communications (MC) underpins signaling in biological systems, enabling information transfer through biochemical molecules. The prospect of engineering this natural communication mechanism has inspired the Internet of Bio-Nano…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Murat Kuscu

In this paper, we consider diffusive molecular communication (MC) systems affected by signal-dependent diffusive noise, inter-symbol interference, and external noise. We design linear and nonlinear fractionally-spaced equalization schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Trang Ngoc Cao , Vahid Jamali , Nikola Zlatanov , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jamie Evans , 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

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…

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 a bio-inspired method of transmitting information using biochemical signals, promising for novel medical, agricultural, and environmental applications at the intersection of bio-, nano-, and communication…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Eren Akyol , Ahmet Baha Ozturk , Iman Mokari Bolhassan , Murat Kuscu

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

Inspired by Nature, molecular communications (MC), i.e., use of molecules to encode, transmit and receive information, stands as the most promising communication paradigm to realize nanonetworks. Even though there has been extensive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Murat Kuscu , Ergin Dinc , Bilgesu A. Bilgin , Hamideh Ramezani , Ozgur B. Akan

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,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xinyu Huang , Yuting Fang , Stuart T. Johnston , Mattew Faria , Nan Yang , Robert Schober

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange at the nano- and microscale, with applications in areas like drug delivery and health monitoring. These event-driven scenarios often require alternatives to traditional transmission.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yaning Zhao , Luca Miszewski , Christian Deppe , Massimiliano Pierobon

To accomplish relatively complex tasks, in Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), information collected by different nano-machines (NMs) is usually sent via multiple-access channels to fusion centers (FCs) for further processing. Relying on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Weidong Gao , Lu Shi , Lie-Liang Yang

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…

Molecular communication (MC) enables cooperation of spatially dispersed molecular robots through the feedback control mediated by diffusing signal molecules. However, conventional analysis frameworks for the MC channels mostly consider the…

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

Molecular communication (MC) is emerging paradigm that employs molecules as information carriers, inspired by biological signaling processes. Existing modulation schemes such as on-off keying (OOK), although simple to implement, suffer from…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Muskan Ahuja , Abhishek K. Gupta

Molecular Communication (MC) channels are characterized by significant memory and nonlinear dynamics arising from diffusion and receptor kinetics. While often viewed as impairments to reliable data transmission, this work introduces a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mustafa Uzun , Kaan Burak Ikiz , Murat Kuscu

Molecular communications (MC), where molecules are used to encode, transmit, and receive information, is a promising means of enabling the coordination of nanoscale devices. The paradigm has been extensively studied from various aspects,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

We consider a multi-link diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system where multiple spatially distributed transmitter (TX)-receiver (RX) pairs establish point-to-point communication links employing the same type of signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

In molecular communications (MC), inter-symbol interference (ISI) and noise are key factors that degrade communication reliability. Although time-domain equalization can effectively mitigate these effects, it often entails high…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Cheng Xiang , Yu Huang , Miaowen Wen , Weiqiang Tan , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

Molecular Communication (MC) is an emerging field of research focused on understanding how cells in the human body communicate and exploring potential medical applications. In theoretical analysis, the goal is to investigate cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Wafa Labidi , Vida Gholamian , Yaning Zhao , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche