An asynchronous communication scheme for molecular communication
Journal
IEEE International Conference on Communications
ISBN
9781457720529
Date Issued
2012-12-01
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Abstract
Molecular communications emerge as a promising paradigm for the nano-scale communication in nanotechnology. Though still at an early stage, some research efforts have been made and various molecular communication systems have been proposed. However, existing works mainly focus on the synchronous communication schemes where the synchronous assumption is made for simplifying analyses. In this paper, we propose an asynchronous communication scheme for molecular communications. For the proposed scheme, we make extensive analyses and develop an approximation for channel capacity as a general performance measure which also applies to synchronous systems. Beyond the theoretical analysis, we also examine a specific asynchronous system and compare its performance with synchronous systems to confirm the feasibility of asynchronous molecular communications. © 2012 IEEE.
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conference paper