Showing papers in "Nano Communication Networks in 2010"

TL;DR: The state of the art in nanos sensor technology is surveyed from the device perspective, by explaining the details of the architecture and components of individual nanosensors, as well as the existing manufacturing and integration techniques for nanosensor devices.

TL;DR: Results show that distance between the transmitter and receiver has a minor effect on the achievable data rate whereas the energy budget’s effect is significant and it is shown that selecting appropriate threshold and symbol duration parameters are crucial to the performance of the system.

TL;DR: Spatiotemporal distributions of a carrier signal in the form of the concentration of diffused molecules over the molecular propagation channel and diffusion-dependent communication ranges have been explained for various scenarios and the performance analysis of modulation schemes has been evaluated.

TL;DR: A network performance in terms of end- to-end delay, capacity and end-to-end throughput is obtained which is 4 orders of magnitude higher than the other molecular communication approaches.

TL;DR: Using the stochastic model of molecular reactions in biochemical systems, a realistic channel model is first introduced for molecular communication and a deterministic capacity expression is introduced for point-to-point, broadcast, and multiple-access molecular channels.

TL;DR: This work describes an integrated system that combines a molecular communication interface, a molecular propagation system, and a sender/receiver (using giant lipid vesicles embedded with gemini-peptide lipids) and presents potential applications and the future outlook of molecular communication.

TL;DR: The objective of the framework is to provide a simulation tool in order to create a better understanding of nanonetworks and facilitate the development of new communication techniques and the validation of theoretical results.

TL;DR: This review describes how the average information in the DNA binding sites of any genetic control protein and how this can be extended to analyze its individual sites and imply that biological systems have evolved to function at channel capacity.

TL;DR: It was found that the sensor responses were 22.5% and 36% for the nanowires without and with Pt adsorption when the chamber was injected with 1000 ppm of NH 3 gas at 300 °C.

TL;DR: The architecture of the organization of model networks is presented, demonstrating the capabilities of supervised and unsupervised learning and the possible ways, alternative to the existing lithography-based technologies, that would result in the fabrication of statistically organized networks of such elements, mimicking learning in biological systems.

TL;DR: This research proposes to build analytical foundations to analyze and design nanonetworks, consisting of individual stations communicating over a wireless medium using nanotransceivers with nanotube antennas, and proposes a communication-theoretic framework to design reliable and robust nanoreceivers.

TL;DR: Three classes of approaches (sender, receiver, and environment-oriented approaches) are designed and the probability of in-sequence molecule delivery is investigated.

TL;DR: The basis for artificial morphogenesis is outlined and several simple examples in which biologically inspired models can be used to describe the assembly of useful nanostructures are presented.

TL;DR: A biological cell based molecular communication transmitting platform using synthetic molecular computing techniques to create communication networks of biological nanoscale devices has the potential to open up new opportunities and applications, particularly in areas of health care and information processing.

TL;DR: A physical channel characterization is presented that shows how nanomachines communicate using catalytic nanomotors as information carriers and some trade-offs that will arise when designing these networks are outlined.

TL;DR: A communication-theoretical analysis of the performance of a generic system that involves multiple CNT-based RF receivers is introduced and provides some insights into fundamental questions such as communication rate and encoding of information in nanoscale devices.

TL;DR: The results of methylene blue adsorption performance investigation demonstrated that attapulgite nano-networks (ATP-N) have better adsorptive capability than the attapulate nano-rods ( ATP-R).

TL;DR: The framework of network informatics from the aspects of signal, information, coding, and control is proposed to explore the principles of nano-communication, which are hoped to be applied to designing nano- communication systems in the near future.

TL;DR: The biological excitable media investigated in this paper represent versatile media for controlling biological systems owing to the nature and function of calcium signals as the universal second messenger for the cell.

TL;DR: E-glass fibre/epoxy composites containing periodic arrays of ferromagnetic microwires, designed and investigated in terms of dielectric properties, are a promising candidate for structural health monitoring, sensing and biomedical applications.

TL;DR: floating-gate transistor arrays (FGTAs) are presented, which enable reconfigurable CMOS static logic, achieving improved logic density, performance, and power consumption compared with LUT-based reconfigable logic.

TL;DR: It is seen that this digital cellular design may be up to 22 times denser than an equivalent projected 16 nm CMOS version for image-processing applications, with megapixel-size images estimated to require only a few microseconds for processing.

TL;DR: A humoral immunity-based database mechanism which will be used in modified plasma cells for storing the ssDNA addresses of the neighbouring nanoelements and the messaging framework which enables unicast, multicast, and broadcast messaging among nanoelement, is introduced.

TL;DR: Optimization of the network in the presence of noise finds that a partially homogeneous network improves performance, and thus suggests an approach to simplifying the design of nanoscale analog-to-digital converters and sensor networks.

TL;DR: A novel system of a quantum-molecular transportation using the multi-optical tweezers, whereby the transportation of molecules in the communication system can be performed and can perform secure molecular communication as part of a molecular communication based data network.

TL;DR: It is theoretically shown that the multi-quantum tweezers can be controlled and tuned by varying the couple coefficient between 0.1 and 0.9, which is available for molecule trapping and transportation in the communication up-link system via the add/drop filter.

TL;DR: Different solutions for variation tolerant logic mapping for molecular (diode-based) crossbar array nano architectures using Simulated Annealing as well as a heuristic algorithm are presented.

TL;DR: A recursive lossless compression that allows us to control the trade-off between the circuit complexity and the dimension of the compressed quantum state is designed and a formula is given that describes thetrade-off.

TL;DR: A novel model-based latency/area analysis and optimization method for the newly proposed Asynchronous Nanowire Reconfigurable Crossbar Architecture (ANRCA), based on a self-timed logic referred to as the Null Convention Logic, is presented and validated.

TL;DR: Both studies show that the topological features of the studied nanonetworks are deduced from the structural properties of proteins.