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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

A key challenge in Molecular Communications (MC) is low data transmission rates, which can be addressed by channel multiplexing techniques. One way to achieve channel multiplexing in MC is to leverage the diversity of different molecule…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ahmet R. Emirdagi , M. Serkan Kopuzlu , M. Okan Araz , Murat Kuscu

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

Molecular communication (MC) has promising potential and a wide range of applications. However, odor-based communication which is common in nature, has not been sufficiently examined within the context of MC, yet. In this paper, we…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Fatih E. Bilgen , Ahmet B. Kilic , Ozgur B. Akan

In molecular communication (MC) systems, the \textit{expected} number of molecules observed at the receiver over time after the instantaneous release of molecules by the transmitter is referred to as the channel impulse response (CIR).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Christophe Jardin , Heinrich Sticht , Robert Schober

The notion of synthetic molecular communication (MC) refers to the transmission of information via signaling molecules and is foreseen to enable innovative medical applications in the human cardiovascular system (CVS). Crucially, the design…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Timo Jakumeit , Lukas Brand , Jens Kirchner , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

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

The notion of synthetic molecular communication (MC) refers to the transmission of information via molecules and is largely foreseen for use within the human body, where traditional electromagnetic wave (EM)-based communication is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Timo Jakumeit , Lukas Brand , Jens Kirchner , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

In molecular communication (MC), molecules are released from the transmitter to convey information. This paper considers a realistic molecule shift keying (MoSK) scenario with two species of molecule in two reservoirs, where the molecules…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongliang Jing , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication paradigm that uses molecules as information carriers, requiring unconventional transceivers and modulation/detection techniques. Practical MC receivers (MC-Rxs) can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Meltem Civas , Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

Inter-symbol interference (ISI) with heteroscedastic, or state-dependent, noise is a defining feature of molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD). However, such noise variance dependency across ISI states has not been systematically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Erencem Ozbey , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae

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) is a bio-inspired communication method based on the exchange of molecules for information transfer among nanoscale devices. MC has been extensively studied from various aspects in the literature; however, the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-26 M. Kuscu , O. B. Akan

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

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-27 M. Serkan Kopuzlu , M. Okan Araz , Ahmet R. Emirdagi , Murat Kuscu

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

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

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 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 considers a nonlinear multi-hop multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) relay channel, in which multiple users send information symbols to a multi-antenna base station (BS) with one-bit analog-to-digital converters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Daeun Kim , Song-Nam Hong , Namyoon Lee

Atomic receivers based on Rydberg vapor cells as sensors of electromagnetic fields offer a promising alternative to conventional radio frequency front-ends. In multi-antenna configurations, the magnitude-only, phase-insensitive measurements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Zihang Song , Qihao Peng , Pei Xiao , Bipin Rajendran , Osvaldo Simeone