Research Article
Impacts of Erasure Coding on Robustness against Molecular Packet Losses in Aqueous, Collisional Environments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.22-3-2017.152411, author={Tadashi Nakano and Hiroaki Egashira and Junichi Suzuki and Jonathan S. Mitzman and Hiroaki Fukuda}, title={Impacts of Erasure Coding on Robustness against Molecular Packet Losses in Aqueous, Collisional Environments}, proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={BICT}, year={2017}, month={3}, keywords={molecular communication robustness forward error correction}, doi={10.4108/eai.22-3-2017.152411} }- Tadashi Nakano
Hiroaki Egashira
Junichi Suzuki
Jonathan S. Mitzman
Hiroaki Fukuda
Year: 2017
Impacts of Erasure Coding on Robustness against Molecular Packet Losses in Aqueous, Collisional Environments
BICT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.22-3-2017.152411
Abstract
This paper considers dffusive molecular communication where biologically-enabled machines (or bio-nanomachines) exchange information by means of molecules in aqueous environments. It is known that molecular communication is inherently stochastic and unreliable, thereby significantly degrading communication performance such as latency and jitter. This paper focuses on robustness against molecule losses and investigates a robustness enhancement protocol that performs forward error correction. The transmitter bio-nanomachine encodes molecules in a redundant manner with parity-check erasure codes, and the receiver bio-nanomachine recovers the information embedded in lost molecules. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol enhances robustness against molecule losses and in turn improves communication performance.