An Experimental Platform for Macro-Scale Fluidic Medium Molecular Communication

Khaloopour, Ladan; Rouzegar, Seyed Vahid; Azizi, Alireza; Hosseinian, Amir; Farahnak-Ghazani, Maryam; Bagheri, Nahal; Mirmohseni, Mahtab; Arjmandi, Hamidreza; Mosayebi, Reza; Nasiri-Kenari, Masoumeh

doi:10.1109/tmbmc.2020.2979366

“…Depending on the distances covered by the messengers from the transmitter to the receiver, but above all, on the intrinsic size of the communication channel, molecular communication can be classified into macro-molecular communication (Macro-MoCo) [13], micro-molecular communication (Micro-MoCo) [14], and nano-molecular communication (Nano-MoCo) [15]. Based on the different channel size, the contexts in which molecular communication would find an application also change [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

Effect of Channel Radius on Fluorescent Nanoparticle Based Molecular Communication

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2022

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The effect of the communication channel size on the transport and subsequent detection of chemical messengers is investigated on millimetric and micrometric channels. The transport of the information carriers, being characterized by an advective and a diffusive contribution, was simulated by varying the flow velocity and the diffusion coefficient. Then, to evaluate the information quality, the Intersymbol Interference (ISI) between two consecutive signals at a specific release delay was estimated. This allowed us to verify that operating under micrometric channel conditions has a larger flow velocity range to obtain completely separated successive signals and smaller release delays can be used between signals. The theoretical results were confirmed by developing a prototype molecular communication platform operating under microfluidic conditions, which enables communication through fluorescent nanoparticles, namely Carbon Quantum Dots (CQDs).

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“…Quantities such as the concentration amplitude level [18] and spatiotemporal characteristics [19]- [22] can be used for information encoding. The information modulated onto the chemical plume then propagates through the transmission channel and eventually arrives at the receiver side, where the proper signal detection schemes recover the transmitted information [23], [24].…”

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Kolmogorov Turbulence and Information Dissipation in Molecular Communication

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IEEE Trans. Mol. Biol. Multi-Scale Commun.

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Waterborne chemical plumes are studied as a paradigm for representing a means for molecular communication in a macro-scale system. Results from the theory of fluid turbulence are applied and interpreted in the context of molecular communication to characterize an information cascade, the information dissipation rate and the critical length scale below which information modulated onto the plume can no longer be decoded. The results show that the information dissipation decreases with increasing Reynolds number and that there exists a theoretical potential for encoding smaller information structures at higher Reynolds numbers.

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“…Depending on the distances covered by the messengers from the transmitter to the receiver, but above all on the intrinsic size of the communication channel, molecular communication can be classified into macro -molecular communication (Macro -MoCo) 11 , micro -molecular communication (Micro -MoCo) 12 , and nano -molecular communication (Nano -MoCo) 13 . In this paper we focused on the first two conditions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Channel Radius on the Molecular Communication Based on Fluorescent Nanoparticles

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2021

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The effect of the communication channel size on the transport and subsequent detection of chemical messengers is investigated on millimetric and micrometric channels. The transport of the information carriers, being characterized by an advective and a diffusive contribution, was simulated by varying the flow velocity and the diffusion coefficient. Then, to evaluate the information quality, the Intersymbol Interference (ISI) between two consecutive signals at a specific release delay was estimated. This allowed us to verify that operating under micrometric channel conditions has a larger flow velocity range to obtain completely separated successive signals and smaller release delays can be used between signals. The theoretical results were confirmed by developing a prototype molecular communication platform operating under microfluidic conditions, which enables communication through fluorescent nanoparticles, namely Carbon Quantum Dots (CQDs).

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An Experimental Platform for Macro-Scale Fluidic Medium Molecular Communication

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Effect of Channel Radius on Fluorescent Nanoparticle Based Molecular Communication

Effect of Channel Radius on Fluorescent Nanoparticle Based Molecular Communication

Kolmogorov Turbulence and Information Dissipation in Molecular Communication

Effect of Channel Radius on the Molecular Communication Based on Fluorescent Nanoparticles

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