Towards realisation of mixed carbon nanotube bundles as VLSI interconnects: A review
We present in this paper, the first review on MCB VLSI interconnects. (Source: Nano Communication Networks)
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Enzyme-based circuit design for nano-scale computing
Publication date: September 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 3 Author(s): S. Ivanov , D. Botvich , S. Balasubramaniam Enzyme-based logical gates have been proposed as an alternative to conventional semiconductor gates in order to support computing at the nano-scale for nano-devices. In particular, certain enzyme-based implementations of AND, OR and NOT gates were proposed for further composing enzyme-based circuits for various Boolean functions. However, inputs and outputs of these gates are presented by different chemical species, and this results in potential incompatibility between gates. ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Forward error correction for molecular communications
Publication date: September 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 3 Author(s): Mark S. Leeson , Matthew D. Higgins Communication between nanoscale devices is an area of considerable importance as it is essential that future devices be able to form nanonetworks and realise their full potential. Molecular communication is a method based on diffusion, inspired by biological systems and useful over transmission distances in the nm to μ m range. The propagation of messenger molecules via diffusion implies that there is thus a probability that they can either arrive outside of their required time slot...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Towards security in nano-communication: Challenges and opportunities
Publication date: September 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 3 Author(s): Falko Dressler , Frank Kargl Incredible improvements in the field of nano-technologies have enabled nano-scale machines that promise new solutions for several applications in biomedical, industry and military fields. Some of these applications require or might exploit the potential advantages of communication and hence cooperative behavior of these nano-scale machines to achieve a common and challenging objective that exceeds the capabilities of a single device. Extensions to known wireless communication mechanisms as we...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Quantifying the computational efficacy of nanocomputing channels
Publication date: September 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 3 Author(s): Neal G. Anderson , Fadi Maalouli , Jeremy Mestancik Information-theoretic computational efficacy measures are introduced and applied to the analysis of interacting effects of noise and structural randomness in nanocomputing channels. Two complementary measures–the computational fidelity and representational faithfulness–are shown together to quantify the efficacy with which a particular noisy computing channel implements a specified logical transformation. The statistics of these two measures, evaluated for an ensem...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Nanomaterials communication inside the living organism
Publication date: December 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 4 Author(s): P. Ramesh , K. Gurunathan Nanotechnology (NT) is an the emerging field that brings incredible advantages to society. The potential usage of nano-based materials and products has been tremendously increased in various fields since ancient times. The use of nanomaterials (NMs) is being increased in applications for commercial products, and NT is poised to become a major factor in the world’s economy and part of our everyday lives in the near future. Already hundreds of tonnes of NMs has entered into the environment and th...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
The Internet of Multimedia Nano-Things
Publication date: December 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 4 Author(s): Josep Miquel Jornet , Ian F. Akyildiz Nanotechnology is enabling the development of novel devices which are able to generate, process and transmit multimedia content at the nanoscale. The interconnection of pervasively deployed multimedia nano-devices with existing communication networks and ultimately the Internet defines a novel communication paradigm that is further referred to as the Internet of Multimedia Nano-Things (IoMNT). The IoMNT is a truly cyber–physical system with a plethora of applications in the biomedic...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Modeling and analysis of abnormality detection in biomolecular nano-networks
Publication date: December 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 4 Author(s): Siavash Ghavami , Farshad Lahouti , Ali Masoudi-Nejad A scheme for detection of abnormality in molecular nano-networks is proposed. This is motivated by the fact that early diagnosis, classification and detection of diseases such as cancer play a crucial role in their successful treatment. The proposed nano-abnormality detection scheme (NADS) comprises of a two-tier network of sensor nano-machines (SNMs) in the first tier and a data gathering node (DGN) at the sink. The SNMs detect the presence of competitor cells as abn...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Networked Labs-on-a-Chip (NLoC): Introducing networking technologies in microfluidic systems
Publication date: December 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 4 Author(s): Elena De Leo , Laura Galluccio , Alfio Lombardo , Giacomo Morabito Microfluidics is a science and a technology which deals with manipulation and control of small volumes of fluids flowing in channels of micro-scale size. It is currently used for Labs-On-a-Chip (LoCs) applications mainly. In this context, recently fluids have been used in the discrete form of droplets or bubbles dispersed into another immiscible fluid. In this case, droplets or bubbles can be exploited as a means to transport digital information between ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Memristor-based information gathering approaches, both ant-inspired and hypothetical
Publication date: December 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 4 Author(s): Ella Gale , Ben de Lacy Costello , Andrew Adamatzky Novel gatherer allocation methods based on both memristor function and ant behaviour are tested in both resource rich and poor environments by simulating the non-linear aspects of gathering using memristor models. In the All Sites method gatherers are allocated according to the voltage drop across the memristor simulating each food site. This performs better in environments of a similar quality by depleting the worse sites first and then using the freed-up gatherers to ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Preparation and characterization of short length ZnO nanorods and ZnO@ZnS core–shell nanostructures
Publication date: December 2012 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 3, Issue 4 Author(s): Geeta Rani , P.D. Sahare Short length ZnO nanorods with uniform diameter have been synthesized by a solid state reaction method using Zinc acetate as precursor. This is a larger scale production and inexpensively synthesized method without any templates or additives. ZnO@ZnS core–shell nanostructures were successfully fabricated by sulfidation of ZnO nanorods via a facile chemical synthesis. The as-obtained samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV–Vis absorption, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Design and analysis of heterogeneous nanoscale on-chip communication networks
Publication date: March 2013 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 4, Issue 1 Author(s): Haera Chung , Christof Teuscher With a continuing downscaling of the physical feature sizes, an increase in complexity and the number of on-chip devices, and an increase in their heterogeneity, the traditional on-chip communication infrastructure needs to be revisited. It has previously been shown that multi-hop communication suffers from high latency and power consumption and that networks with long-range, high-bandwidth, and low power communication links significantly improve the system performance. Yet, it is an open prob...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Modeling nonviral gene delivery as a macro-to-nano communication system
Publication date: March 2013 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 4, Issue 1 Author(s): Beata J. Wysocki , Timothy M. Martin , Tadeusz A. Wysocki , Angela K. Pannier The principal role of any communication system is to deliver information from a source to a sink. Since gene delivery systems transport genetic information encoded as DNA to living cells, such systems can be considered as communication systems. Therefore, techniques developed for modeling conventional communication systems should be applicable to model gene delivery systems. The paper describes an approach to model nonviral gene delivery as a mac...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
On the asynchronous information embedding for event-driven systems in molecular communications
Publication date: March 2013 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 4, Issue 1 Author(s): Ya-Ping Hsieh , Yen-Chi Lee , Po-Jen Shih , Ping-Cheng Yeh , Kwang-Cheng Chen Molecular communications is emerging as a promising paradigm for nanoscale communications in nanotechnology. Though still at an early stage, research efforts have been devoted and various molecular communication systems have been proposed. However, each proposed system possesses a specific structure to achieve communications in its own way. To our best knowledge, no unified system description exists so far. In this paper, we propose an abstract ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Molecular communication via microtubules and physical contact in nanonetworks: A survey
Publication date: June 2013 Source:Nano Communication Networks, Volume 4, Issue 2 Author(s): Kamal Darchini , Attahiru S. Alfa Advancements in nanotechnology have promised the building of nanomachines capable of carrying out simple tasks. Final goals of using these nanomachines in applications such as monitoring body tissues, drug delivery or other complicated applications need them to do complex tasks. A feasible way to have them cooperate and do complex tasks is to interconnect them by building a nanonetwork. As nanomachines can only carry out simple tasks, nanonetworks bring up new issues in networking and communi...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - October 12, 2014 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
