On Channel Capacity and Error Compensation in Molecular Communication

Abstract. Molecular communication is a novel paradigm that uses molecules as an information carrier to enable nanomachines to communicate with each other. Controlled molecule delivery between two nanomachines is one of the most important challenges which must be addressed to enable the molecular communication. Therefore, it is essential to develop an information theoretical approach to find out communication capacity of the molecular channel. In this paper, we develop an information theoretical approach for capacity of a molecular channel between two nanomachines. Using the principles of mass action kinetics, we first introduce a molecule delivery model for the molecular communication between two nanomachines called as Transmitter Nanomachine (TN) and Receiver Nanomachine (RN). Then, we derive a closed form expression for capacity of the channel between TN and RN. Furthermore, we propose an adaptive Molecular Error Compensation (MEC) scheme for the molecular communication between TN an...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TCSB
• Authors: Baris Atakan, Özgür B. Akan
• Keywords: Communication Capacity, Computational Biology, Molecular Communication, Nanomachines, TCSB 2008