Modeling Duct Flow for Molecular Communication

Wicke W, Schwering T, Ahmadzadeh A, Jamali V, Noel A, Schober R (2019)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2019

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Conference Proceedings Title: 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018 - Proceedings

Event location: Abu Dhabi AE

ISBN: 9781538647271

DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2018.8647632

Abstract

Active transport such as fluid flow is sought in molecular communication to extend coverage, improve reliability, and mitigate interference. Flow models are often over-simplified, assuming one-dimensional diffusion with constant drift. However, diffusion and flow are usually encountered in three-dimensional bounded environments where the flow is highly non-uniform such as in blood vessels or microfluidic channels. For a qualitative understanding of the relevant physical effects inherent to these channels, based on the Péclet number and the transmitter-receiver distance, we study when simplified models of uniform flow and advection-only transport are applicable. For these two regimes, analytical expressions for the channel impulse response are derived and validated by particle-based simulation. Furthermore, as advection-only transport is typically overlooked and hence not analyzed in the molecular communication literature, we evaluate the symbol error rate for exemplary on-off keying as performance metric.

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APA:

Wicke, W., Schwering, T., Ahmadzadeh, A., Jamali, V., Noel, A., & Schober, R. (2019). Modeling Duct Flow for Molecular Communication. In 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018 - Proceedings. Abu Dhabi, AE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Wicke, Wayan, et al. "Modeling Duct Flow for Molecular Communication." Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018, Abu Dhabi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019.

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