1st International ICST Conference on Bio Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

Research Article

Simulation of a molecular motor based communication network

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1315843.1315867,
        author={Michael Moore and Akihiro Enomoto and Tadashi  Nakano and Tatsuya  Suda and Atsushi  Kayasuga and Hiroaki  Kojima and Hitoshi Sakakibara and Kazuhiro  Oiwa},
        title={Simulation of a molecular motor based communication network},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Bio Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={BIONETICS},
        year={2006},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1145/1315843.1315867}
    }
    
  • Michael Moore
    Akihiro Enomoto
    Tadashi Nakano
    Tatsuya Suda
    Atsushi Kayasuga
    Hiroaki Kojima
    Hitoshi Sakakibara
    Kazuhiro Oiwa
    Year: 2006
    Simulation of a molecular motor based communication network
    BIONETICS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1315843.1315867
Michael Moore1,*, Akihiro Enomoto1,*, Tadashi Nakano1,*, Tatsuya Suda1,*, Atsushi Kayasuga2,*, Hiroaki Kojima2,*, Hitoshi Sakakibara2,*, Kazuhiro Oiwa2,*
  • 1: Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
  • 2: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Kobe, Japan
*Contact email: mikemo@ics.uci.edu, enomoto@ics.uci.edu, tnakano@ics.uci.edu, suda@ics.uci.edu, kayasuga@nict.go.jp, kojima@nict.go.jp, sakaki@nict.go.jp, oiwa@nict.go.jp

Abstract

Molecular communication provides a mechanism for the coordination and control of micro-scale and nano-scale devices. In this paper, we describe simulation models to evaluate a molecular communication system that uses molecular motors to transport information molecules over a filament network. The molecular communication system includes an abstracted sender device that releases the information molecules into the environment and a receiver device that detects those molecules as information. In biological systems, molecules move through the environment using methods such as molecular motors that walk on filaments (for certain intracellular transport) or passive diffusion through Brownian motion (for both inter and intracellular transport). We perform simulations to compare the molecular motor system and a Brownian diffusion system and measure the success rate and delay of communicating to receivers. Recent research in engineering biological systems focuses on communication on a two-dimensional surface, and thus we focus on characterizing communications between a sender and receiver that are randomly located on a surface.