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A Unifying Model for External Noise Sources and ISI in Diffusive Molecular Communication
This paper considers the impact of external noise sources, including
interfering transmitters, on a diffusive molecular communication system, where
the impact is measured as the number of noise molecules expected to be observed
at a passive receiver. A unifying model for noise, multiuser interference, and
intersymbol interference is presented, where, under certain circumstances,
interference can be approximated as a noise source that is emitting
continuously. The model includes the presence of advection and molecule
degradation. The time-varying and asymptotic impact is derived for a series of
special cases, some of which facilitate closed-form solutions. Simulation
results show the accuracy of the expressions derived for the impact of a
continuously-emitting noise source, and show how approximating intersymbol
interference as a noise source can simplify the calculation of the expected bit
error probability of a weighted sum detector.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, 1 appendix. To appear in IEEE Journal
on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). Submitted October 21, 2013,
revised April 21, 2014, accepted June 3, 201
Active Versus Passive: Receiver Model Transforms for Diffusive Molecular Communication
This paper presents an analytical comparison of active and passive receiver
models in diffusive molecular communication. In the active model, molecules are
absorbed when they collide with the receiver surface. In the passive model, the
receiver is a virtual boundary that does not affect molecule behavior. Two
approaches are presented to derive transforms between the receiver signals. As
an example, two models for an unbounded diffusion-only molecular communication
system with a spherical receiver are unified. As time increases in the
three-dimensional system, the transform functions have constant scaling
factors, such that the receiver models are effectively equivalent. Methods are
presented to enable the transformation of stochastic simulations, which are
used to verify the transforms and demonstrate that transforming the simulation
of a passive receiver can be more efficient and more accurate than the direct
simulation of an absorbing receiver.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. Will be presented at IEEE Globecom 201
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