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Metabolic scaling is one of the most important patterns in biology. Theory explaining the 3/4-power size-scaling of biological metabolic rate does not predict the non-linear scaling observed for smaller life forms. Here we present a new…

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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

In a diffusion-based molecular communication network, transmitters and receivers communicate by using signalling molecules (or ligands) in a fluid medium. This paper assumes that the transmitter uses different chemical reactions to generate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Chun Tung Chou

Chemical reactions are a prominent feature of molecular communication (MC) systems, with no direct parallels in wireless communications. While chemical reactions may be used inside the transmitter nodes, receiver nodes or the communication…

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Cellular signaling involves the transmission of environmental information through cascades of stochastic biochemical reactions, inevitably introducing noise that compromises signal fidelity. Each stage of the cascade often takes the form of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-20 Michael Hinczewski , D. Thirumalai

This work presents a new multi-chemical experimental platform for molecular communication where the transmitter can release different chemicals. This platform is designed to be inexpensive and accessible, and it can be expanded to simulate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Nariman Farsad , David Pan , Andrea Goldsmith

Biological functions in each animal cell depend on coordinated operations of a wide variety of molecular motors. Some of the these motors transport cargo to their respective destinations whereas some others are mobile workshops which…

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Cell-cell communication is often achieved by secreted signaling molecules that bind membrane-bound receptors. A common class of such receptors are G-protein coupled receptors, where extracellular binding induces changes on the membrane…

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We have explored the optimal frequency of interstellar photon communications and benchmarked other particles as information carriers in previous papers of this series. We now compare the latency and bandwidth of sending probes with…

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White matter in mammal brains forms a densely interconnected communication network. Due to high edge density, along with continuous generation and spread of messages, brain networks must contend with congestion, which may limit polysynaptic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-22 Yan Hao , Tate Tower , Hannah Lax , Marc-Thorsten Hütt , Daniel J. Graham

Although continuous advances in theoretical modelling of Molecular Communications (MC) are observed, there is still an insuperable gap between theory and experimental testbeds, especially at the microscale. In this paper, the development of…

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Achieving precise synchronisation between transmitters and receivers is particularly challenging in diffusive molecular communication environments. To this end, point-to-point molecular communication system design is examined wherein…

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In three spatial dimensions, communication channels are free to pass over or under each other so as to cross without intersecting; in two dimensions, assuming channels of strictly positive thickness, this is not the case. It is natural,…

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This work presents a performance analysis for diffusive molecular communication with mobile transmit and receive nanomachines. To begin with, the optimal test is obtained for symbol detection at the receiver nanomachine. Subsequently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Neeraj Varshney , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communication channel between two nano-machines is considered. The effect of the amount of memory on performance is characterized, and a simple memory-limited decoder is proposed and its…

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Molecular communication (MC) is a kind of communication technology based on biochemical molecules for internet of bio-nano things, in which the biochemical molecule is used as the information carrier for the interconnection of nano-devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jiaxing Wang , Bonan Yin , Mugen Peng

The biological cell exhibits a fantastic range of behaviors, but ultimately these are governed by a handful of physical and chemical principles. Here we explore simple theory, known for decades and based on the simple thermodynamics of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-25 Daniel M. Zuckerman

Networks are widely used to represent interaction pattern among the components in complex systems. Structures of real networks from differ- ent domains may vary quite significantly. Since there is an interplay be- tween network architecture…

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