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Source Addressing and Medium Access Control in Bacterial Communication Networks

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In this work, we focus on the problem of source addressing in multiple source single receiver bacterial communication network. We propose amplitude-addressing, where the amplitude of transmitted signal is assigned as address of the source. We analyse the performance of the network with different addressing mechanisms and propose an optimum address sequence for a given network design. We also show that amplitude-addressing implicitly solves the problem of medium access control.

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              NANOCOM' 15: Proceedings of the Second Annual International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
              September 2015
              186 pages
              ISBN:9781450336741
              DOI:10.1145/2800795

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