Receiver design and performance analysis for pulse position modulation technique in diffusion-based molecular communication
Publication date: Available online 2 August 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Amin Zare, Ali JamshidiAbstractMolecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD) is one of the most prominent approaches to interconnect the nano-machines which can do some simple communication functions. In this paper, Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) is studied. We divide the received time step to four separated bins and recognized the distribution model of received molecules in each bin. As a benchmark, we derive Maximum Likelihood (ML) detector for comparison with other methods. Furthermore, we propose a technique called MAX detecto...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - August 3, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Signal generation and storage in FRET-based nanocommunications
Publication date: Available online 1 August 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Jakub Kmiecik, Krzysztof Wojcik, Pawel Kulakowski, Andrzej JajszczykAbstractThe paper is concerned with Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) considered as a mechanism for communication between nanodevices. Two solved issues are reported in the paper, namely: signal generation and signal storage in FRET-based nanonetworks. First, luciferase molecules as FRET transmitters which are able to generate FRET signals themselves, taking energy from chemical reactions without any external light exposure, are proposed. Second, channelrh...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - August 2, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Proximity-coupled two-port multi-input-multi-output graphene antenna with pattern diversity for THz applications
Publication date: September 2019Source: Nano Communication Networks, Volume 21Author(s): Gaurav Varshney, Shailza Gotra, V.S. Pandey, R.S. YaduvanshiAbstractA proximity coupled graphene patch based two-port multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) antenna with pattern diversity is implemented for THz applications. The MIMO and diversity performance parameters of the antenna like envelop correlation coefficient (ECC), diversity gain (DG) and mean effective gain (MEG) and total active reflection coefficient are calculated and found within the acceptable limits. The antenna offers the ECC <0.01, DG ≈10dB, and MEG ≤−3 dB. Th...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - July 17, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Routing techniques in wireless nanonetworks: A survey
Publication date: Available online 11 July 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Xin-Wei Yao, Ye-Chen-Ge Wu, Wei HuangAbstractWireless NanoNetworks (WNNs) are wireless communication networks composed of interacting nanonodes. The extremely limited capabilities and resources of nanonodes, as well as the severe path loss of terahertz band communication in WNNs, represent a challenge to the communication distance among nanonodes and the overall network performance. Therefore, appropriate routing protocols are necessary for guaranteeing multihop communication in WNNs. In this survey, the existing routing protocols ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - July 12, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
A proximity coupled two-port MIMO graphene antenna with pattern diversity for THz applications
Publication date: Available online 13 June 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Gaurav Varshney, Shailza Gotra, V.S. Pandey, R.S. YaduvanshiAbstractA proximity coupled graphene patch based two-port multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) antenna with pattern diversity is implemented for THz applications. The MIMO and diversity performance parameters of the antenna like envelop correlation coefficient (ECC), diversity gain (DG) and mean effective gain (MEG) and total active reflection coefficient are calculated and found within the acceptable limits. The antenna offers the ECC <0.01, DG ≈10dB, and MEG ≤−3dB. ...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - June 14, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Computation of decision problems within messages in DNA-tile-based molecular nanonetworks
We present a new approach to implement nanonetworks with molecular communication using tile-based self-assembly systems on the basis of DNA. In this model, the medium of communication is filled with DNA-based molecules. Furthermore, some nanobots are capable of creating or releasing said molecules. Once present, they can be detected by other nanobots and interpreted as messages. Some DNA-based molecule systems are capable of universal computation. We show that it is possible to construct systems, in which the evaluation to true of an arbitrary decision problem is a precondition for the assembly of a message molecule. We re...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 15, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
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Publication date: June 2019Source: Nano Communication Networks, Volume 20Author(s): (Source: Nano Communication Networks)
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 15, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
The anatomy of bacteria-inspired nanonetworks: Molecular nanomachines in message dissemination
Publication date: Available online 10 May 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Olga Tsave, Ioannis Kavakiotis, Konstantinos Kantelis, Stathis Mavridopoulos, Petros Nicopolitidis, Georgios Papadimitriou, Ioannis Vlahavas, Athanasios SalifoglouAbstractNanotechnology is an emerging field devoted to providing new insight into a vast range of subjects interfacing sciences and engineering. As advances in nanotechnology emerge continuously, new areas of applications in nanoscale communication also emerge that involve biological systems. By definition, nanocommunication is the exchange of information at nanoscale leve...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - May 12, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Low-overhead thermally resilient optical network-on-chip architecture
Publication date: Available online 29 March 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Melika Tinati, Somayyeh Koohi, Shaahin HessabiAbstractIntegrated silicon photonic networks have attracted a lot of attention in the recent decades due to their potentials for low-power and high-bandwidth communications. However, these promising networks, as the future technology, are drastically susceptible to thermal fluctuations, which may paralyze wavelength-based operation of these networks. In this regard, precise addressing of thermally induced faults in optical networks-on-chip (ONoCs), as well as revealing practical method...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - March 30, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
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Publication date: March 2019Source: Nano Communication Networks, Volume 19Author(s): (Source: Nano Communication Networks)
Source: Nano Communication Networks - March 8, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Parallel algorithms for simulating interacting carriers in nanocommunication
Publication date: Available online 6 March 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Pieter Stroobant, Luca Felicetti, Didier Colle, Wouter Tavernier, Mauro Femminella, Gianluca Reali, Mario PickavetAbstractDiffusion-based molecular communication (DMC) with interacting carrier molecules allows exploring a variety of new communication paradigms. Simulating these interactions on a network scale is however hard from an analytic point of view, and continuous detection of which couples of particles may interact is a computationally expensive task. This work proposes different algorithms that allow detecting which partic...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - March 7, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Metric combinations in non-coherent signal detection for molecular communication
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Shenghan Liu, Zhuangkun Wei, Bin Li, Weisi Guo, Chenglin ZhaoAbstractIn emerging Internet-of-Nano-Things (IoNT) and molecular communication (MC), digital information will be embedded in chemical molecules in order to propagate through complex and absorbing media. However, two main challenges in signal detection are the intensive inter-symbol-interference (ISI) and the severe background noise, which may heavily deteriorate the reliability of molecular communications. This may be even worse when facing unknown channel impulse res...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - February 23, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Concentration-based demodulation scheme for mobile receiver in molecular communication
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Lin Lin, Qian Wu, Maode Ma, Hao YanAbstractMolecular communication is a novel approach for conveying information at the nano- or micro- scale. The modulation and demodulation schemes for fixed transmitter and receiver nanomachine have been studied in previous literature. However, it is still a big challenge to perform the demodulation when the transmitter and/or the receiver is mobile. In this paper, a simple and effective demodulation scheme for a mobile receiver is investigated for 3-D scenario with drift. Inter-symbol interf...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - February 23, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
H2WNoC: A honeycomb hardware-efficient wireless network-on-chip architecture
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019Source: Nano Communication NetworksAuthor(s): Mohammad Alaei, Fahimeh YazdanpanahAbstractNetwork-on-chips (NoCs) have emerged as communication backbones for enabling massive parallelism and high degree of integration in many-core chips. In spite of the advantages of conventional NoCs, wired multi-hop links impose limitations on NoCs performance by long delay and high power consumption especially in large systems. To alleviate these problems, different solutions such as wireless network-on-chip (WiNoC) designs have been proposed. WiNoCs benefit from long-range, high bandwidt...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - January 30, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
Communication in nano devices: Electronic based biophysical model of a neuron
In this study, a novel simple electronic integrate and fire model which has been designed previously was further developed and used to simulate and analyze the communication of neurons. The proposed electronic model not only simulates the neuronal cell’s behavior and also can transmit the information to the following neuron. The rate of correct transmission depends on the synaptic channel model. The characteristics of the used semiconductor components with overall structure of the proposed electronic model are very close to the biophysical nature of neuron and can be designed on semiconductor chips which is the advantage...
Source: Nano Communication Networks - January 26, 2019 Category: Nanotechnology Source Type: research
