Journal
IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 32, Issue 12, Pages 2392-2401Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2367662
Keywords
Nano communication networks; molecular communication; channel model; channel nonlinearity; tabletop molecular communication; test bed; imperfect receiver; practical models
Funding
- MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning) under the IT Consilience Creative Program [NIPA-2014-H0201-14-1002]
- ICT R&D program of MSIP/IITP, a Discovery grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) in Canada
- Ministry of Public Safety & Security (MPSS), Republic of Korea [H0201-14-1002] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Recently, a tabletop molecular communication platform has been developed for transmitting short text messages across a room. The end-to-end system impulse response for this platform does not follow previously published theoretical works because of imperfect receiver, transmitter, and turbulent flows. Moreover, it is observed that this platform resembles a nonlinear system, which makes the rich body of theoretical work that has been developed by communication engineers not applicable to this platform. In this work, we first introduce corrections to the previous theoretical models of the end-to-end system impulse response based on the observed data from experimentation. Using the corrected impulse response models, we then formulate the nonlinearity of the system as noise and show that through simplifying assumptions it can be represented as Gaussian noise. Through formulating the system's nonlinearity as the output a linear system corrupted by noise, the rich toolbox of mathematical models of communication systems, most of which are based on linearity assumption, can be applied to this platform.
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