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A Novel Channel Model for Molecular Communications Based on Inter-cellular Calcium Wave

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Calcium signalling is a good bio-inspired method for molecular communication due to the advantages of biocompatibility, stability, and long communication range. In this paper, we investigate a few channel characteristics of calcium signaling transfer systems including propagation distance and time delay based on a novel inter-cellular calcium wave (ICW) propagation model. Our model is the first one that can investigate the impact of some exclusive parameters in ICW (e.g., the gap junction permeability). Understanding the channel transfer characteristics of ICW can provide a significant reference for the calcium signaling application in molecular communication. In the future, theoretical and simulation results in this paper can help in the design of molecular communication systems between nanodevices.

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Acknowledgment

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support from the EPSRC TOUCAN project (Grant No. EP/L020009/1), the EU FP7 QUICK project (Grant No. PIRSES-GA-2013-612652), the EU H2020 5G Wireless project (Grant NO. 641985), Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61210002 and 61371110), and Key R&D Program of Shandong Province (Grant No. 2016GGX101014).

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  1. Shandong Provincial Key Lab of Wireless Communication Technologies, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

    Hengtai Chang, Ji Bian, Jian Sun & Wensheng Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, People’s Republic of China

    Jian Sun

  3. School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Cheng-Xiang Wang

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Chang, H., Bian, J., Sun, J., Zhang, W., Wang, CX. (2018). A Novel Channel Model for Molecular Communications Based on Inter-cellular Calcium Wave. In: Li, C., Mao, S. (eds) Wireless Internet. WiCON 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90802-1_25

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