Research Article
Development of Molecular based Communication Protocols for Nanomachines
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2239, author={Frank Walsh and Sasitharan Balasubramaniam and Dmitri Botvich and William Donnelly and Sergey Sergeyev}, title={Development of Molecular based Communication Protocols for Nanomachines}, proceedings={2nd Internationa ICST Conference on Nano-Networks}, proceedings_a={NANO-NET}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={Nanomachine Nano-Communication Communication Protocols Molecular Communication Nano-Computation}, doi={10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2239} }- Frank Walsh
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam
Dmitri Botvich
William Donnelly
Sergey Sergeyev
Year: 2010
Development of Molecular based Communication Protocols for Nanomachines
NANO-NET
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2239
Abstract
Communication between nanomachines (e.g. biological nano-scale devices) has the potential to open up new opportunities and applications, especially in areas such as health care and information processing. Inspired by current data communication protocols, we propose a molecular-based communication protocol to enable reliable communication between nanomachines. In this paper, we present a protocol stack which enables nanomachine communication through the encoding and transmission of data as biomolecules. Extending previous work in logical nano-computation, we define an error-recovery process through the use of a chemical state machine based on nano-logic circuit. Finally, we present initial results of simulation of nanomachine communication in the presence of both channel and chemical instability and demonstrate the performance of the nano-circuit in such conditions.
