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This paper studies the impact of a transmitter's molecule generation process on the capacity of a concentration based Molecular Communication (MC) system. Constraints caused by the molecule generation process affect the availability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hamid G. Bafghi , Amin Gohari , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

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…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Bon-Hong Koo , Changmin Lee , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Nariman Farsad , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

To communicate at the nanoscale, researchers have proposed molecular communication as an energy-efficient solution. The drawback to this solution is that the histogram of the molecules' hitting times, which constitute the molecular signal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz , Nafi Ahmet Turgut , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae , Tuna Tugcu , Ali Emre Pusane

Molecular communication has a key role to play in future medical applications, including detecting, analyzing, and addressing infectious disease outbreaks. Overcoming inter-symbol interference (ISI) is one of the key challenges in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Xuan Chen , Miaowen Wen , Fei Ji , Yu Huang , Yuankun Tang , Andrew W. Eckford

In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient spatial modulation based molecular communication (SM-MC) scheme, in which a transmitted symbol is composed of two parts, i.e., a space derived symbol and a concentration derived symbol. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Yu Huang , Miaowen Wen , Lie-Liang Yang , Chan-Byoung Chae , Fei Ji

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

In this paper, we present an analytical model for the diffusive molecular communication (MC) system with a reversible adsorption receiver in a fluid environment. The widely used concentration shift keying (CSK) is considered for modulation.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Yansha Deng , Adam Noel , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Karen C. Cheung

In this paper, we design matched filters for diffusive molecular communication systems taking into account the following impairments: signal-dependent diffusion noise, inter-symbol interference (ISI), and external interfering molecules. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

In molecular communication, the heavy tail nature of molecular signals causes inter-symbol interference (ISI). Because of this, it is difficult to decrease symbol periods and achieve high data rate. As a probable solution for ISI…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yae Jee Cho , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Weisi Guo , Chan-Byoung Chae

Communication via diffusion (CvD) is an effective and energy efficient method for transmitting information in nanonetworks. In this work, we focus on a diffusion-based communication system where the reception process is an absorption via…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-01-16 H. Birkan Yilmaz , Na-Rae Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

Molecular communication suffers from severe inter-symbol interference, which makes constrained coding essential for reliable transmission. Run-length-limited ISI-mitigation codes are attractive because they select low-weight constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Melih Şahin , Ozgur B. Akan

This paper develops a molecular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework that exploits the same molecular observations for physical-parameter sensing and data detection. As a representative instantiation, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ruifeng Zheng , Pengjie Zhou , Martín Schottlender , Veronika Volkova , Juan A. Cabrera , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Pit Hofmann

In this paper, we propose a symbol interval optimization algorithm in molecular communication with drift. Proper symbol intervals are important in practical communication systems since information needs to be sent as fast as possible with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Na-Rae Kim , Andrew W. Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae

In the domain of molecular communication (MC), information is conveyed through the characteristics of molecules transmitted between the transmitter and the receiver bionanosensors via propagation. The constrained size of the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Dongliang Jing , Linjuan Li , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford

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…

There are now several works on the use of the additive inverse Gaussian noise (AIGN) model for the random transit time in molecular communication~(MC) channels. The randomness invariably causes inter-symbol interference (ISI) in MC, an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Siavash Ghavami , Raviraj Adve , Farshad Lahouti

Nano-scale molecular communication is a viable way of exchanging information between nano-machines. In this letter, a low-complexity and non-coherent signal detection technique is proposed to mitigate the inter-symbol-interference (ISI) and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Bin Li , Mengwei Sun , Siyi Wang , Weisi Guo , Chenglin Zhao

In diffusion-based molecular communication, information is transferred from a transmitter to a receiver using molecular carriers. The low achievable data rate is the main disadvantage of diffusion-based molecular over radio-based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Foroogh S. Tabataba

This paper studies the capacity of molecular communications in fluid media, where the information is encoded in the number of transmitted molecules in a time-slot (amplitude shift keying). The propagation of molecules is governed by random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Siavash Ghavami , Raviraj Adve , Farshad Lahouti

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…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bonhong Koo , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae