On the capacity of diffusion-based molecular timing channels

Nariman Farsad; Yonathan Murin; Andrew Eckford; Andrea Goldsmith

doi:10.1109/ISIT.2016.7541454

On the capacity of diffusion-based molecular timing channels

Nariman Farsad, Yonathan Murin, Andrew Eckford, Andrea Goldsmith

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Abstract

This work introduces capacity limits for molecular timing (MT) channels, where information is modulated on the release timing of small information particles, and decoded from the time of arrival at the receiver. It is shown that the random time of arrival can be represented as an additive noise channel, and for the diffusion-based MT (DBMT) channel, this noise is distributed according to the Lévy distribution. Lower and upper bounds on the capacity of the DBMT channel are derived for the case where the delay associated with the propagation of information particles in the channel is finite. These bounds are also shown to be tight.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - ISIT 2016; 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1023-1027
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509018062
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2016.7541454
State	Published - Aug 10 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2016 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: Jul 10 2016 → Jul 15 2016

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Name	IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
Volume	2016-August
ISSN (Print)	2157-8095

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Other	2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2016
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	7/10/16 → 7/15/16

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Theoretical Computer Science
Information Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Applied Mathematics

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Farsad, N., Murin, Y., Eckford, A., & Goldsmith, A. (2016). On the capacity of diffusion-based molecular timing channels. In Proceedings - ISIT 2016; 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 1023-1027). Article 7541454 (IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings; Vol. 2016-August). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2016.7541454

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Proceedings - ISIT 2016; 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 1023-1027 7541454 (IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings; Vol. 2016-August).

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Farsad N, Murin Y, Eckford A, Goldsmith A. On the capacity of diffusion-based molecular timing channels. In Proceedings - ISIT 2016; 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016. p. 1023-1027. 7541454. (IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/ISIT.2016.7541454

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