Molecular barcodes: Information transmission via persistent chemical tags

Wang, Linchen; Farsad, Nariman; Guo, Weisi; Magierowski, Sebastian; Eckford, Andrew W.

doi:10.1109/icc.2015.7248469

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“…However, it was shown that it is still possible to send limited information using the testbed developed in [10]. In [256], a robotic platform is developed for robotic communication using persistent chemical tags.…”

Section: Practical and Experimental Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Advancements in Molecular Communication

Farsad¹,

Yilmaz²,

Eckford³

et al. 2016

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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With much advancement in the field of nanotechnology, bioengineering and synthetic biology over the past decade, microscales and nanoscales devices are becoming a reality. Yet the problem of engineering a reliable communication system between tiny devices is still an open problem. At the same time, despite the prevalence of radio communication, there are still areas where traditional electromagnetic waves find it difficult or expensive to reach. Points of interest in industry, cities, and medical applications often lie in embedded and entrenched areas, accessible only by ventricles at scales too small for conventional radio waves and microwaves, or they are located in such a way that directional high frequency systems are ineffective. Inspired by nature, one solution to these problems is molecular communication (MC), where chemical signals are used to transfer information. Although biologists have studied MC for decades, it has only been researched for roughly 10 year from a communication engineering lens. Significant number of papers have been published to date, but owing to the need for interdisciplinary work, much of the results are preliminary. In this paper, the recent advancements in the field of MC engineering are highlighted. First, the biological, chemical, and physical processes used by an MC system are discussed. This includes different components of the MC transmitter and receiver, as well as the propagation and transport mechanisms. Then, a comprehensive survey of some of the recent works on MC through a communication engineering lens is provided. The paper ends with a technology readiness analysis of MC and future research directions.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorial

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Section: Practical and Experimental Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Advancements in Molecular Communication

Farsad¹,

Yilmaz²,

Eckford³

et al. 2016

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…Experimental setups for fluid environments using a wide range of information carriers, such as glucose [17], salt [18], M. Bartunik, J. Teller, G. Fischer and J. Kirchner are at the Institute for Electronics Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). [19], or pH value [5], [6], [20], [21], have been constructed. Applications to biomedical contexts were specifically regarded in [18], where a pharmacokinetic model as a method for data transmission in the human body was modelled, and [17], where glucose concentration was modulated in a biocompatible setup.…”

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Channel Parameter Studies with a Biocompatible Testbed for Molecular Communication: Methods and Data

Bartunik¹,

Teller²,

Fischer³

et al. 2023

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<p>Testbeds play an essential role in the development of real-life molecular communication applications and experimental validation of communication channel models. Although some testbed concepts have been published in recent years, very few setups are inherently suitable for biomedical applications. Furthermore, systematic experimental data of a wide parameter field for molecular communication is scarce and often difficult to generate. In this work, a biocompatible testbed for molecular communication with magnetic nanoparticles is used to investigate a series of transmission channel parameters. The observed results are discussed in the context of a laminar flow channel. All experimental data regarding the parameter studies as well as an additional data set for a large binary transmission sequence is provided as a supplement to this publication. The data is available on a public server to allow for further use by other researchers.</p>

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“…First testbeds proposed for molecular communication used alcohol-based transmission [2,6,11] or acids/bases as information carriers [3,4,7]. The authors in [10] present an alternative testbed using superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) as transmission particles.…”

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Comparative Evaluation of a New Sensor for Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in a Molecular Communication Setting

Bartunik

Unterweger

Schober

et al. 2020

Bio-Inspired Information and Communication Technologies

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Testbeds are required to assess concepts and devices in the context of molecular communication. These allow the observation of real-life phenomena in a controlled environment and therefore present the basis of future work. A testbed using superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) as information carriers was constructed with regard to this context and requires a sensitive receiver for the detection of SPIONs. This paper focusses on the comparison between a newly presented device (inductance sensor), a previously constructed SPION sensor (resonance bridge), and a commercial susceptometer as reference. The new inductance sensor is intended to improve on a low sensitivity achieved with the previous device and restrictions with respect to sample rate and measurement aperture encountered with the susceptometer. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for each device is assessed at a variety of SPION concentrations. Furthermore, the sensors bit error rates (BER) for a random bit sequence are determined. The results show the device based on an inductance sensor to be the most promising for further investigation as values both for BER and SNR exceed those of the resonance bridge while providing a sufficiently high sample rate. On average the SNR of the new device is 13 dB higher while the BER for the worst transmission scenario is 9 % lower. The commercial susceptometer, although returning the highest SNR, lacks adaptability for the given use case.

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Molecular barcodes: Information transmission via persistent chemical tags

Cited by 15 publications

References 27 publications

A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Advancements in Molecular Communication

A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Advancements in Molecular Communication

Channel Parameter Studies with a Biocompatible Testbed for Molecular Communication: Methods and Data

Comparative Evaluation of a New Sensor for Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in a Molecular Communication Setting

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