A computational modeling language for complex laboratory experiments
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Adriana Compagnoni , Paola Giannini , Christopher Kelley BioScape P , a probabilistic version of BioScape, is a new modeling language for a state-dependent stochastic simulation of parallel processes in three dimensional space. Normally a modeling language describes an initial concentration of entities after which all changes are driven by the simulation of reactions. We instead design conditional simulation commands which depend on a global state. Our contribution is a new command in the form when R run A 1 ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 30, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Agent based deterministic model of the adult subventricular neurogenesis
Publication date: Available online 23 May 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): M.P. Kurhekar , U.A. Deshpande There is a significant interest in studying adult subventricular neurogenesis to understand its biological function. Adult subventricular neurogenesis results in migration of neuronal precursors from subventricular zone to the olfactory bulb through the rostral migratory stream where they get converted to neurons. In this paper, we present a deterministic model of adult subventricular neurogenesis. This model captures the essence of neurogenesis by incorporating the neural stem cells, rapidly pr...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 23, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Behavioural observations of cell movements with timing aspects
Publication date: Available online 21 May 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Bogdan Aman , Gabriel Ciobanu We use membrane systems to define a formalism inspired by cell biology in which mobility and timing are explicitly specified. In order to reason about the behaviours of complex biological systems, we introduce several observational equivalences over mobile membranes with lifetimes. These equivalences based on observations correspond to several combinations of mobility operations that can be performed, timing aspects of the objects involved in mobility and their explicit positions inside membranes...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 21, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Reliability bounds for two dimensional consecutive systems
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Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 21, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Contribution of canonical feed-forward loop motifs on the fault-tolerance and information transport efficiency of transcriptional regulatory networks
Publication date: Available online 21 April 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Ahmed F. Abdelzaher , Michael L. Mayo , Edward J. Perkins , Preetam Ghosh Motifs and degree distribution in transcriptional regulatory networks play an important role towards their fault-tolerance and efficient information transport. In this paper, we designed an innovative in silico canonical feed-forward loop motif knockout experiment in the transcriptional regulatory network of E. coli to assess their impact on the following five topological features: average shortest path, diameter, closeness centrality, global and lo...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 1, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Structuring precedes extension in percolating Physarum polycephalum networks
Publication date: Available online 21 April 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): A. Fessel , C. Oettmeier , H.-G. Döbereiner Microplasmodia of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum form a small link degree transportation network in a percolation transition in order to forage. We model this transition analytically within the configuration model of graph theory utilizing all partaking types of nodes. Quite generally, we find that at the percolation transition the formation of a small link degree network is topologically highly constrained and only weakly dependent on environmental factors. Structuring of...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 1, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
2014 Editorial for NANOCOMNET
Publication date: March 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 6, Issue 1 Author(s): Ian F. Akyildiz (Source: Nano Communication Networks)
Source: Nano Communication Networks - March 4, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Connecting in-body nano communication with body area networks: Challenges and opportunities of the Internet of Nano Things
Publication date: Available online 9 February 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Falko Dressler , Stefan Fischer Nano-communication is considered to become a major building block for many novel applications in the health care and fitness sector. Given the recent developments in the scope of nano machinery, coordination and control of these devices becomes the critical challenge to be solved. In-Body Nano-Communication based on either molecular, acoustic, or RF radio communication in the terahertz band supports the exchange of messages between these in-body devices. Yet, the control and communication w...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - February 9, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Large scale MEMS robots cooperative map building based on realistic simulation of nano-wireless communications
Publication date: Available online 7 February 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Nicolas Boillot , Dominique Dhoutaut , Julien Bourgeois The Claytronics project has produced interesting hardware components like cylindric micro-robots called catoms and software models to enable the concept of programmable matter. One application is the use of several catoms linked together so that they can “walk”. These walkers can explore an area and thanks to electromagnetic wireless nano-networks, they can communicate with each other sharing the map of the place to explore. In this paper, we study the different...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - February 7, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
A timing channel-based MAC protocol for energy-efficient nanonetworks
Publication date: Available online 7 February 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Salvatore D’Oro , Laura Galluccio , Giacomo Morabito , Sergio Palazzo In this paper a scheme is proposed that exploits the timing channel, i.e., the logical communication channel in which information is encoded in the timing of transmissions, in nanocommunications. The above scheme is called Timing Channel for Nanonetworks (TCN) and supports low rate communications in an energy efficient and reliable manner. Performance of TCN are analytically evaluated and compared, through numerical examples, to those achieved by tr...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - February 7, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Actin quantum automata: Communication and computation in molecular networks
Publication date: Available online 2 February 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Stefano Siccardi , A. Adamatzky Actin is filament-forming protein forming a communication and information processing cytoskeletal network of eukaryotic cells. Actin filaments play a key role in developing synaptic structure, memory and leaning of animals and humans; many psychiatric and neurological disorders are due to disfunction in the assembly of actin fibres. This is why it is important to develop abstractions of the information processing on the actin filaments. We model actin filaments as two chains of one-dimensio...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - February 3, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Networks of bacteria colonies: A new framework for reliable molecular communication networking
Publication date: Available online 28 January 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri The prospect of new biological and industrial applications that require communication in micro-scale, encourages research on the design of bio-compatible communication networks using networking primitives already available in nature. One of the most promising candidates for constructing such networks is to adapt and engineer specific types of bacteria that are capable of sensing, actuation, and above all, communication with each other. In this paper, we present network...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - January 29, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Dynamic channel allocation in electromagnetic nanonetworks for high resolution monitoring of plants
Publication date: Available online 9 January 2015 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Armita Afsharinejad , Alan Davy , Brendan Jennings We investigate techniques to enable communication in the THz band between graphene-based nanoscale devices and microscale network components for agricultural crop-monitoring applications. The properties of THz communications, in particular sensitivity to moisture levels on the communications path and attenuation by obstacles (e.g., leaves) mean that achieving a desired level of throughput of monitoring data can be difficult. Using a simplified model of plant structure and...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - January 10, 2015 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
On the design of an energy-harvesting protocol stack for Body Area Nano-NETworks
Publication date: Available online 13 November 2014 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Giuseppe Piro , Gennaro Boggia , Luigi Alfredo Grieco Body Area Nano-NETworks (BANNETs) consist of integrated nano-machines, diffused in the human body for collecting diagnostic information and tuning medical treatments. Endowed with communication capabilities, such nano-metric devices can interact with each other and the external micro/macro world, thus enabling advanced health-care services (e.g., therapeutic, monitoring, sensing, and telemedicine tasks). Due to limited computational and communication capabilities of ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - December 18, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Performance of SW-ARQ in bacterial quorum communications
Publication date: Available online 3 December 2014 Source:Nano Communication Networks Author(s): Chenyao Bai , Mark S. Leeson , Matthew D. Higgins Bacteria communicate with one another by exchanging specific chemical signals called autoinducers. This process, also called quorum sensing, enables a cluster of bacteria to regulate their gene expression and behaviour collectively and synchronously, such as bioluminescence, virulence, sporulation and conjugation. Bacteria assess their population density by detecting the concentration of autoinducers. In Vibrio fischeri, which is a heterotrophic Gram-negative marine bacte...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - December 18, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
