Channel modeling and transceiver design for molecular communication systems

Abstract

Molecular communications (MC) is a new communication paradigm that uses molecules to transmit information. Since MC has similar mechanisms to signaling between cells in nature and can overcome limitations of conventional communications, e.g., at a tiny scale, MC is envisioned in many applications such as targeted drug delivery, health monitoring, toxic environment monitoring, etc. To realize these applications, the principle design of MC systems, comprised of transceivers and channels, first needs to be investigated by using communication theory. In this thesis, we consider four different scenarios of MC and investigate channel models and transceiver designs of these systems. In particular, ..