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An Analytical model for molecular communication over a Non-Linear reaction-diffusion medium

Abin, H ; Sharif University of Technology | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3114831
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc , 2021
  4. Abstract:
  5. One of the main challenges in diffusion-based molecular communication is dealing with the non-linearity of reaction-diffusion chemical equations. While numerical methods can be used to solve these equations, a change in the input signals or the parameters of the medium requires one to redo the simulations. This makes it difficult to design modulation schemes and practically impossible to prove the optimality of a given transmission strategy. In this paper, we provide an analytical technique for modeling the non-linearity of chemical reaction equations based on the perturbation method. The perturbation method expresses the solution in terms of an infinite power series. An approximate solution can be found by keeping the leading terms of the power series. The approximate solution is shown to track the true solution if either the simulation time interval or the reaction rate is sufficiently small. Approximate solutions for long time intervals are also discussed. An illustrative example is given. For this example, it is shown that when the reaction rate (or the total time interval) is low, instead of using a continuous release waveform, it is optimal for the transmitters to release molecules at two time instances. © 1972-2012 IEEE
  6. Keywords:
  7. Chemical analysis ; Diffusion in liquids ; Numerical methods ; Perturbation techniques ; Approximate solution ; Linear reaction ; Molecular communication ; Non linear ; Perturbation method ; Power series ; Reaction-Diffusion ; Reaction-diffusion medium ; Reactions rates ; Time interval ; Reaction rates
  8. Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications ; Volume 69, Issue 12 , 2021 , Pages 8042-8054 ; 00906778 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9546767