Modeling Duct Flow for Molecular Communication

Wicke W, Schwering T, Ahmadzadeh A, Jamali Kooshkghazi V, Noel A, Schober R (2018)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Accepted

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Future Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2018

Edited Volumes: Proceedings IEEE GlobeCom 2018

Event location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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 Peclet 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 Kooshkghazi, V., Noel, A., & Schober, R. (2018). Modeling Duct Flow for Molecular Communication. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

MLA:

Wicke, Wayan, et al. "Modeling Duct Flow for Molecular Communication." Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2018.

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