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Biologically inspired bio-cyber interface architecture and model for internet of Bio-NanoThings applications
With the advent of nanotechnology, concepts related
to the Internet of Things, such as the Internet of NanoThings
and Internet of Bio-NanoThings (IoBNT) have also emerged
in the classical literature. The main concern of this paper is
the IoBNT, which projects the prospective application domain
where the activities of very tiny, biocompatible, and non-intrusive
devices operating in an in-body nanonetwork can be monitored
and controlled through the Internet. In this paper, we present
an illustrative scenario and system model of an IoBNT for
application in an advanced healthcare delivery system. To address
one of the major challenges of the IoBNT, we present an
exemplary architecture and model of a bio-cyber interface
for connecting the conventional electromagnetic-based Internet
to the biochemical signaling-based bionanonetwork. The biocyber
interface is designed and modeled by employing biological
concepts, such as the responsiveness of certain biomolecules to
thermal and light stimuli, and the bioluminescence phenomenon
of some biochemical reactions. The analysis in this paper focuses
on the system that comprises the bio-cyber interface and the
information propagation network of the blood vessel that leads to
the in-body nanonetwork location. The effects of the system and
design parameters associated with the IoBNT models presented
are numerically evaluated.The Sentech Chair in Broadband Wireless Multimedia Communications at the University of Pretoria and the Department of Trade and Industry THRIP Program.http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=26hb2016Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineerin
Applications of molecular communications to medicine: A survey
In recent years, progresses in nanotechnology have established the foundations for implementing nanomachines capable of carrying out simple but significant tasks. Under this stimulus, researchers have been proposing various solutions for realizing nanoscale communications, considering both electromagnetic and biological communications. Their aim is to extend the capabilities of nanodevices, so as to enable the execution of more complex tasks by means of mutual coordination, achievable through communications. However, although most of these proposals show how devices can communicate at the nanoscales, they leave in the background specific applications of these new technologies. Thus, this paper shows an overview of the actual and potential applications that can rely on a specific class of such communications techniques, commonly referred to as molecular communications. In particular, we focus on health-related applications. This decision is due to the rapidly increasing interests of research communities and companies to minimally invasive, biocompatible, and targeted health-care solutions. Molecular communication techniques have actually the potentials of becoming the main technology for implementing advanced medical solution. Hence, in this paper we provide a taxonomy of potential applications, illustrate them in some detail, along with the existing open challenges for them to be actually deployed, and draw future perspectives