Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL AND MULTI-SCALE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 60-70Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMBMC.2020.3004030
Keywords
Molecular communication; MIMO; asymmetric topology; signal detection; error performance
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation, China [61971314]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [19ZR1426500]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [19510744900]
- EU [792799]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [792799] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Molecular communication (MC) has attracted people's attention due to its potential applications at the micro- to nano-scale. In MC, the transmission rate is usually very low due to the slow diffusion of information molecules and therefore multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is introduced. However, severe interference occurs when the same types of information molecules are used at different transmission antennas. Up to now, most literature focuses on MIMO systems with symmetrical topology. In this paper, a molecular MIMO communication system with asymmetrical topology, where the number of transmission antennas is not equal to that of the reception antennas, is investigated. The zero-forcing (ZF) detection approach is proposed and discussed for three cases, i.e., the number of transmission antennas is smaller than, equal to and larger than the number of the reception antennas. Considering the inter-link interference (ILI) and the inter-symbol interference (ISI), the error probability of ZF detection is derived and comparisons are made with existing molecular MIMO detection method. Besides, the adaptive observation time for each reception antenna is derived for better performance. Numerical results show that ZF detection performs better than the existing molecular MIMO detection method when the ILI is large.
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