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In this paper, weighted sum detectors in diffusive molecular communication are assessed for their performance in the presence of multiuser interference and continuously-emitting noise sources that release molecules over finite time intervals. Weighted ...

Molecular Communication (MC), i.e., the exchange of information through the emission, propagation, and reception of molecules, is a promising paradigm for the interconnection of autonomous nanoscale devices, known as nanomachines. Synthetic biology ...

Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD) is an effective and energy efficient method for transmitting information across nanonetworks. In this paper, we focus on a diffusion-based communication system in which the reception process is absorption via ...

Molecular communications has been considered as a new paradigm in nano-networks. Similar to classical wireless communications, molecular communications also consists of three modules, i.e., the transmitter, the signal propagation (channel) and the ...

Nanonetworks consist of nano-sized communicating devices which can perform simple tasks at the nanoscale. Nanonetworks are the enabling technology for long-awaited applications in the biomedical, industrial and military fields. In this paper, the use of ...

In this paper, we introduce RIH-MAC, a receiver-initiated MAC protocol, for communication among nanonodes in a wireless electromagnetic nanonetwork. The protocol can be used for a wide family of applications and operates in both distributed and ...

In the upcoming many-core era, chip multiprocessor architectures will be composed of hundreds or even thousands of processor cores, which interact among them through an on-chip communication platform for synchronization and data coherency/consistency ...

Nanoscale communication based on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) enables single molecular nanomachines to communicate by transferring their optical excited states, i.e., excitons, between each other. Our recent studies revealed that FRET is a ...

We consider diffusion-based molecular communication networks where the receivers consist of a set of chemical reactions or a molecular circuit. At the receivers of these networks, the signalling molecules react with the molecular circuit to produce ...

The emergence of nano-electromagnetic communications based on graphene nano-antennas has opened new perspectives for communications between small things, referred as to the internet of micro-things or even as the internet of nano-things. However, these ...

Recent research and development of nanotechnology have been providing innovative instruments for health-care applications. One of the most promising is the stimulation of the cerebral cortex for the analysis and treatment of brain diseases. In this ...

Communication via Diffusion (CvD) is a promising method to perform communication in nanonetworks, which uses messenger molecules (MMs) to exchange information between transmitter and receiver nano-machines. One of the major issues in CvD is the ...

Nanocommunications are communication techniques used in nanonetworks. Molecular communication is a type of nanocommunication which uses molecules to encode messages. In this paper, we consider a hybrid of molecular communication using microtubules and ...

A key open research issue in the area of molecular communication is establishing interfaces between a molecular communication environment where molecular communication takes place and its external environment. In this paper, we describe an architecture ...

The molecular communication is proposed as an alternative communication technique for nanodevices. The existing challenges of nanodevice production triggered the usage of biological nanodevices, bacteria cells. However the possible dangers and the ...

Chemical reactors are designed to efficiently produce high-value chemical products but at the same time they also produce low-value by-products. The selectivity of a chemical process refers to the proportion of high-value product produced. A nano sensor ...

In this paper, an approach for links reliability estimation in bacterial nanonetworks is presented. In particular, we focus on the usage of replication coding to increase the network performance (i.e., the transmitter nanomachine sends a set of bacteria ...

Video streaming is a growing application on the Internet, and its growing pace is not slowing down. There have been a tremendous amount of work on video streaming over the Internet but nobody has ever studied in detail video streaming over a nano-...

Microfluidic devices have recently attracted the interest of researchers for the number of applications especially in healthcare and controlled drug delivery. However these devices are today not programmable and static in the sense that they perform ...

Recent advances in synthetic biology have dramatically expanded our ability to control biological processes at the cellular level. Particularly, a large body of recent work focuses on human pathogen treatment targeting increased antibiotic resistance. ...

This paper shows a proposal of a biological nano-communication system established in a blood vessel, aiming to support the detection and treatment of tumors. This system could either be used for diagnostic purposes in the early stage of a disease or to ...

Neurons within human brain make use of two communication paradigms while pursuing an objective, namely, classical electromagnetic and molecular. Physiological studies revealed that communication performance between neurons, including memory formation ...

Graphene-based nano-antennas can enable wireless communications between nano-scale devices. Large numbers of nano-devices can be connected to form networks enabling a variety of applications, such as agricultural crop monitoring. Graphennas will ...

The interconnection of nanoscale devices (i.e., nanonodes) within a nanonetwork with existing communication networks, as well as the Internet, defines a new networking paradigm, namely the Internet of Nano-Things. Within this context, the definition of ...