Research Article
An Information Theoretical Approach for Molecular Communication
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2467, author={Barıs Atakan and \O{}zg\'{y}r B. Akan}, title={An Information Theoretical Approach for Molecular Communication}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems}, proceedings_a={BIONETICS}, year={2008}, month={8}, keywords={Molecular communication channel capacity entropy information theory}, doi={10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2467} }- Barıs Atakan
Özgür B. Akan
Year: 2008
An Information Theoretical Approach for Molecular Communication
BIONETICS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2467
Abstract
Molecular communication is a novel communication paradigm which allows nanomachines to communicate using molecules as a carrier. 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 molecule delivery capacity of the molecular channel. In this paper, we develop an information theoretical approach for capacity of a molecular channel between two nanomachines. We first introduce a molecular communication model. Then, using the principles of mass action kinetics we give 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. Numerical results show that selecting appropriate molecular communication parameters such as temperature of environment, concentration of emitted molecules, distance between nanomachines and duration of molecule emission, it can be possible to achieve maximum capacity for the molecular communication channel between two nanomachines.