A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Advancements in Molecular Communication
By Nariman Farsad, Huseyin Birkan Yilmaz, Andrew W. Eckford, Chan-Byoung Chae, Weisi Guo. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2014
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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 survey, 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 survey ends with a technology readiness analysis of MC and future research directions.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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- Channel Modeling for Diffusive Molecular Communication—A Tutorial Review (2018, background): “Due to its simplicity, advection with constant velocity is the most widelystudied advection model in the MC literature [37], [3], [46].”
- Neural Network Detection of Data Sequences in Communication Systems (2018, background): “, due to variations in temperature and pressure [5].”
- 6G Wireless Communications: Vision and Potential Techniques (2019, background): “Moreover, a 6G network may also include other communication types, such as molecular communications [13] for future micro- or nano-scale medical applications.”
- A Survey on Green 6G Network: Architecture and Technologies (2019, background): “constrained by the ratio of antenna size to EM wavelength, while MC signals are biocompatible, and consume very little energy for generation and propagation [61], whichmakesMC ideal for intrabody nanonetworks [62].”
- Quantum Machine Learning for 6G Communication Networks: State-of-the-Art and Vision for the Future (2019, background): “Description of radio propagation channels characteristics for molecular communications is not well established in the literature [89]; for such communica-”