Experimental System for Molecular Communication in Pipe Flow With Magnetic Nanoparticles

Wicke W, Unterweger H, Kirchner J, Brand L, Ahmadzadeh A, Ahmed D, Jamali V, Alexiou C, Fischer G, Schober R (2021)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

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URI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9493754

DOI: 10.1109/TMBMC.2021.3099399

Open Access Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9493754

Abstract

In the emerging field of molecular communication (MC), testbeds are needed to validate theoretical concepts, motivate applications, and guide further modeling efforts. To this end, this paper presents a flexible and extendable in-vessel testbed for flow-based macroscopic MC, abstractly modeling, e.g., a part of a chemical reactor or a blood vessel. Signaling is based on injecting non-reactive superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) dispersed in an aqueous suspension into a tube with background flow. A commercial magnetic susceptometer is used for non-intrusive downstream signal reception. To shed light on the operation of the testbed, we identify the physical mechanisms governing the transmission, propagation, and reception of the information-carrying SPIONs. Moreover, to facilitate system design, we propose a closed-form parametric expression for the end-to-end channel impulse response (CIR). The proposed CIR model is shown to consistently capture the experimentally observed distance-dependent impulse response peak heights and peak decays for transmission distances from 540. Moreover, to validate our testbed, reliable communication is demonstrated based on experimental data for model-agnostic and model-based detection methods.

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APA:

Wicke, W., Unterweger, H., Kirchner, J., Brand, L., Ahmadzadeh, A., Ahmed, D.,... Schober, R. (2021). Experimental System for Molecular Communication in Pipe Flow With Magnetic Nanoparticles. IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMBMC.2021.3099399

MLA:

Wicke, Wayan, et al. "Experimental System for Molecular Communication in Pipe Flow With Magnetic Nanoparticles." IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (2021).

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