Performance Analysis of D-MoSK Modulation in Mobile Diffusive-Drift Molecular Communication Relay System

Molecular communication (MC) is a new wireless communication technology, which uses molecules as information carriers. Diffusion-based MC is one of the most common MC methods. With the increase of diffusion distance, the molecular signal attenuation is serious, so the traditional communication technology of relay is introduced into the MC system. In this work, a mobile diffusive-drift MC relay model is investigated, in which the depleted molecule shift keying (D-MoSK) modulation is used. The closed-form expression of symbole error rate (SER) and the channel capacity are derived, meanwhile the impacts of several crucial parameters on the performance are discussed comprehensively

Amplify-and-Forward Relaying in Two-Hop Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication Networks

This paper studies a three-node network in which an intermediate nano-transceiver, acting as a relay, is placed between a nano-transmitter and a nano-receiver to improve the range of diffusion-based molecular communication. Motivated by the relaying protocols used in traditional wireless communication systems, we study amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying with fixed and variable amplification factor for use in molecular communication systems. To this end, we derive a closed-form expression for the expected end-to-end error probability. Furthermore, we derive a closed-form expression for the optimal amplification factor at the relay node for minimization of an approximation of the expected error probability of the network. Our analytical and simulation results show the potential of AF relaying to improve the overall performance of nano-networks.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Submitted to the 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) on April 15, 201