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This thesis studies on diffusion-based molecular communication channel between two nano-machines. The effect of the amount of memory on performance is characterized, and a simple memory-limited decoder is proposed and its performance is shown to be close to that of the best possible decoder (without any restrictions on the computational complexity or its functional form), using Genie-aided upper bounds. This effect is studied for the case of Molecular Concentration Shift Keying; it is shown that a four-bits memory achieves nearly the same performance as infinite memory. Then a general class of threshold decoders is considered and shown not to be optimal for a Poisson channel with memory,...