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On the capacity of level and type modulations in Molecular communication with ligand receptors

Aminian, G ; Sharif University of Technology | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/ISIT.2015.7282796
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc , 2015
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this paper, we consider the bacterial point-to-point communication problem with one transmitter and one receiver by considering the ligand receptor binding process. The most commonly investigated signalling model, referred to as the Level Scenario (LS), uses one type of a molecule with different concentration levels for signaling. An alternative approach is to employ multiple types of molecules with a single concentration level, referred to as the Type Scenario (TS). We investigate the trade-offs between the two scenarios for the ligand receptor from the capacity point of view. For this purpose, we evaluate the capacity using numerical algorithms. Moreover, we derive an upper bound on the capacity of the ligand receptor for a Binomial Channel (BIC) model, using symmetrized Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. A lower bound is also derived when the environment noise is negligible. Finally, we analyse the effect of blocking of a receptor by a molecule of a different type, by proposing a new Markov model in the multiple-type signalling
  6. Keywords:
  7. Algorithms ; Bins ; Economic and social effects ; Information theory ; Markov processes ; Molecules ; Concentration levels ; Kullback-Leibler divergence ; Ligand receptors ; Ligand-receptor binding ; Molecular communication ; Numerical algorithms ; One receivers ; Point-to-point communication ; Ligands
  8. Source: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, 14 June 2015 through 19 June 2015 ; Volume 2015-June , 2015 , Pages 1951-1955 ; 21578095 (ISSN) ; 9781467377041 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7282796&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7282796