2nd Workshop on Computing and Communications from Biological Systems: Theory and Applications

Research Article

Biochemically-Engineered Molecular Communication Interface and Propagation System

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2008.4741,
        author={Yuki  Moritani and Satoshi  Hiyama and Tatsuya  Suda},
        title={Biochemically-Engineered Molecular Communication Interface and Propagation System},
        proceedings={2nd Workshop on Computing and Communications from Biological Systems: Theory and Applications},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={CCBS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Molecular communication Biochemical engineering Molecular communication interface Molecular propagation system},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2008.4741}
    }
    
  • Yuki Moritani
    Satoshi Hiyama
    Tatsuya Suda
    Year: 2010
    Biochemically-Engineered Molecular Communication Interface and Propagation System
    CCBS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2008.4741
Yuki Moritani1,*, Satoshi Hiyama1,*, Tatsuya Suda1,2,*
  • 1: Research Laboratories, NTT DOCOMO, Inc. 3-5 Hikarino-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-8536, Japan. +81 46 840 3811
  • 2: School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine +1 949 824 5474
*Contact email: moritani@nttdocomo.co.jp, hiyama@nttdocomo.co.jp, suda@ics.uci.edu

Abstract

The authors of this paper have proposed the concept of "molecular communication". The molecular communication uses molecules (i.e., chemical signals) as an information medium and allows biological and artificially-created nano- or cell-scale devices to communicate over a short distance. It is a new and biologically inspired communication paradigm and is different from the existing communication paradigm that uses electromagnetic waves (i.e., electronic and optical signals) as an information medium. This paper focuses on designs of a molecular communication interface and a molecular propagation system and their preliminary experiments to show the feasibilities.