Molecular Nano-Communication Networks

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering School of Biology

Georgia Institute of Technology

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MoNaCo: Molecular
Nano-Communication Networks

Publications

Journals

• Akyildiz, I. F., Brunetti, F., and Blazquez, C., "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm," Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, Vol. 52, pp. 2260-2279, August, 2008. [PDF]
  
  
• Akyildiz, I. F., Jornet, J. M., and Pierobon, M. "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications," Communications of the ACM, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 84-89, November 2011. [PDF]
  
  
• Akyildiz, I. F., Fekri, F., Sivakumar, R., Forest, C. R., and Hammer, B. K., "MoNaCo: Fundamentals of Molecular Nano-communication Networks,'' IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 19, no. 5, pp 12-18, October 2012. [PDF]
   
• Parcerisa L. and Akyildiz, I. F.,"Molecular Communication Options for Long Range Nanonetworks," Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), Vol. 53, No. 16, pp. 2753-2766, November, 2009. [PDF]
  
  
• Pierobon, M., and Akyildiz, I. F., "A Physical End-to-End Model for Molecular Communication in NanoNetworks," IEEE JSAC (Journal of Selected Areas in Communications), Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 602-611, May 2010. [PDF]
  
  
• Gregori, M., and Akyildiz, I. F., "A New NanoNetwork Architecture using Flagellated Bacteria and Catalytic Nanomotors," IEEE JSAC (Journal of Selected Areas in Communications), Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 612-619, May 2010. [PDF]
  
  
• Cobo-Rus, L. C. and Akyildiz, I. F.,"Bacteria-based Communication in Nanonetworks," Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 244-256, December 2010. [PDF]
  
  
• Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Diffusion-based Noise Analysis for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 6, June 2011. [PDF]
  
  
• Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Noise Analysis in Ligand-Binding Reception for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 4168–4182, September 2011. [PDF]
  
  
• Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Capacity of a Diffusion-based Molecular Communication System with Channel Memory and Molecular Noise," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 942–954, February 2013. [PDF]
  
  
• Bicen, A. O. and Akyildiz, I. F., "System-theoretic Analysis and Least-squares Design of Microfluidic Channels for Flow-induced Molecular Communication," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2013.  
   
• B. Krishnaswamy, C. M. Henegar, J.P. Bardill, D. Russakow, G. L. Holst, B.K. Hammer, C. R.Forest, R. Sivakumar, "Time-elapse communication: bacterial communication on a microfluidic chip," submitted for journal publication, Apr. 2013.  
   
• A. Einolghozati, M. Sardari, and F. Fekri, "Design and Capacity Study of a Communication System between two Bio Nodes using Diffusion-based Molecular Signaling," submitted for journal publication, November 2012, revised March 2013.  
   
• Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Statistical-physical Models of Interference in Diffusion-based Molecular Nanonetworks," submitted for journal publication, June 2013.
  
  
• Bicen, A. O. and Akyildiz, I. F., "An Analysis of End-to-end Propagation Noise and Memory for Molecular Communication over Microfluidic Channels," submitted for journal publication, July 2013.  
   

Conferences

• Akyildiz, I. F., Jornet, J. M. and Pierobon, M., "Propagation Models for Nanocommunication Networks", in Proc. of the Fourth European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP, Barcelona, Spain, April 2010. [PDF]
   
• Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Information Capacity of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, INFOCOM, Miniconference, Shanghai, China, April 2011. [PDF]
  
  
• Llatser, I., Alarcon, E., and Pierobon, M., "Diffusion-based Channel Characterization in Molecular Nanonetworks," in Proc. of 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011. [PDF] 
   
• Garralda, N., Llatser, I., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., and Pierobon, M., "Simulation-based Evaluation of the Diffusion-based Physical Channel in Molecular Nanonetworks," in Proc. of 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011. [PDF] 
   
• Gao, Y., Lakshmanan, S., and Sivakumar, R., "On Attractant Scheduling in Networks based on Bacterial Communication," in Proc. of 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011. [PDF] 
   
• Einolghozati, A., Sardari, M., Beirami, A., and Fekri, F., "Consensus problem under diffusion-based molecular communication," in Proc. of 45st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS, Baltimore, MD, USA, March 2011. [PDF] 
   
• Einolghozati, A., Sardari, M., Beirami, A., and Fekri, F., "Capacity of discrete molecular diffusion channels," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 2011. [PDF]
   
• A. Einolghozati, M. Sardari and F. Fekri, "Capacity of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication with Ligand Receptors," 2011 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Paraty, Brazil, October 2011.
   
• Einolghozati, A., Sardari, M., Beirami, A., and Fekri, F., "Data Gathering in Networks of Bacteria Colonies: Collective Sensing and Relaying Using Molecular Communication," NetSciCom Workshop at 31th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012), Orlando, FL, USA, March 2012.
   
• A. Einolghozati, M. Sardari, and F. Fekri, "Collective sensing-capacity of bacteria populations," in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2012), Boston, USA, July 2012.
   
• A. Einolghozati, M. Sardari, and F. Fekri, "Molecular communication between two populations of bacteria," in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 2012.
   
• A. Einolghozati, M. Sardari, and F. Fekri, "Relaying in diffusion-based molecular communication," to appear in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013), July 2013.
   
• Meng, L. S., Yeh, P. C., Chen, K. C., and Akyildiz, I. F., "A Diffusion-Based Binary Digital Communication System," in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012. [PDF]  
   
• Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Intersymbol and Co-channel Interference in Diffusion-based Molecular Communication," in Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), ICC, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.  
   
• Pierobon, M. , Bardill, J. P., Hammer, B. K., and Akyildiz, I. F., "A Biological Pulse Generator Circuit for Bacteria-based Molecular Communication," poster at the Frontiers in Systems and Synthetic Biology '13 (FSSB'13), Atlanta, GA, USA, March 2013.
   
• A. O. Bicen and I. F. Akyildiz, "Molecular Transport in Microfluidic Channels for Flow-induced Molec- ular Communication," to appear in Proc. of 3rd IEEE Int. Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), ICC, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.
   
• B. Krishnaswamy, C. M. Henegar, J. P. Bardill, D. Russakow, G. L. Holst, B. K. Hammer, C. R. Forest, and R. Sivakumar, "When Bacteria Talk: Time Elapse Communication for Super-Slow Networks," to appear in the Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.