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Bacteria track chemical gradients using a biased random walk, a process called chemotaxis. Experiments suggest that bacteria also communicate during this process. Using a mathematical model, we find that sufficiently strong communication…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Soutick Saha , Sean Fancher , Andrew Mugler

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

Molecular communication is an expanding body of research. Recent advances in biology have encouraged using genetically engineered bacteria as the main component in the molecular communication. This has stimulated a new line of research that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekr

The design of biologically-inspired wireless communication systems using bacteria as the basic element of the system is initially motivated by a phenomenon called \emph{Quorum Sensing}. Due to high randomness in the individual behavior of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

Molecular Communications (MC), transferring information via chemical signals, holds promise for transformative healthcare applications within the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) framework. Despite promising advances toward practical MC…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Maide Miray Albay , Eren Akyol , Fariborz Mirlou , Levent Beker , Murat Kuscu

Molecular communication (MC) is a paradigm that employs molecules as information transmitters, hence, requiring unconventional transceivers and detection techniques for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT). In this study, we provide a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-27 O. Tansel Baydas , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange through the transmission of signaling molecules (SMs) and holds promise for many innovative applications. However, most existing works in MC rely on simplified transmitter (TX)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Teena tom Dieck , Lukas Brand , Sebastian Lotter , Kathrin Castiglione , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer

For nano-scale communications, there must be cooperation and simultaneous communication between nano devices. To this end, in this paper we investigate two-way (a.k.a. bi-directional) molecular communications between nano devices. If…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Jong Woo Kwak , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Nariman Farsad , Chan-Byoung Chae , Andrea Goldsmith

Synthetic molecular communication (MC) is a new communication engineering paradigm which is expected to enable revolutionary applications such as smart drug delivery and real-time health monitoring. The design and implementation of…

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

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

The recent expansion of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens poses significant challenges in treating healthcare-associated infections. Although antibacterial resistance occurs by numerous mechanisms, active efflux of the drugs is a critical…

In this paper, we consider the bacterial point-to-point communication problem with one transmitter and one receiver by considering the ligand receptor binding process. The most commonly investigated signalling model, referred to as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Gholamali Aminian , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari , Faramarz Fekri

Molecular communication (MC), a biologically inspired technology, enables applications in nanonetworks and the Internet of Everything (IoE), with great potential for intra-body systems such as drug delivery, health monitoring, and disease…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Dilara Aktas , Ozgur B. Akan

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired paradigm for transmitting information using chemical signals, which can enable novel applications at the junction of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and information and communication…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Iman Mokari Bolhassan , Ali Abdali , Murat Kuscu

Quantum communication addresses the problem of exchanging information across macroscopic distances by employing encryption techniques based on quantum mechanical laws. Here, we advance a new paradigm for secure quantum communication by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 R. Di Candia , H. Yiğitler , G. S. Paraoanu , R. Jäntti

In this paper, we present a communication protocol between a pair of biological nanomachines, transmitter and receiver, built upon molecular communications in an aqueous environment. In our proposal, the receiver, acting as a control node,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Felicetti , Mauro Femminella , Gianluca Reali , Tadashi Nakano , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Bacteria generally live in complicated structures called biofilms, consisting of communicating bacterial colonies and extracellular polymeric substance (EPS). Since biofilms are related to detrimental effects such as infection or antibiotic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-07 Fatih Gulec , Andrew W. Eckford

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant threat to public health by increasing mortality, extending hospital stays, and increasing healthcare costs. It affects people of all ages and affects health services, veterinary medicine,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Alissen Peterson , Jhoana P. Romero-Leiton , Pablo Aguirre , Kamal R. Acharya , Bouchra Nasri

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