TY - GEN
T1 - On the impact of time-synchronization in molecular timing channels
AU - Farsad, Nariman
AU - Murin, Yonathan
AU - Guo, Weisi
AU - Chae, Chan Byoung
AU - Eckford, Andrew
AU - Goldsmith, Andrea
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This work studies the impact of time-synchronization in molecular timing (MT) channels by analyzing three different modulation techniques. The first requires transmitter-receiver synchronization and is based on modulating information on the release timing of information particles. The other two are asynchronous and are based on modulating information on the relative time between two consecutive releases of information particles using indistinguishable or distinguishable particles. All modulation schemes result in a system that relate the transmitted and the received signals through an additive noise, which follows a stable distribution. As the common notion of the variance of a signal is not suitable for defining the power of stable distributed signals (due to infinite variance), we derive an expression for the geometric power of a large class of stable distributions, and then use this result to characterize the geometric signal-to-noise ratio (G-SNR) for each of the modulation techniques. In addition, for binary communication, we derive the optimal detection rules for each modulation technique. Numerical evaluations indicate that the bit error rate (BER) is constant for a given G-SNR, and the performance gain obtained by using synchronized communication is significant. Yet, it is also shown that by using two distinguishable particles per bit instead of one, the BER of the asynchronous technique can approach that of the synchronous one.
AB - This work studies the impact of time-synchronization in molecular timing (MT) channels by analyzing three different modulation techniques. The first requires transmitter-receiver synchronization and is based on modulating information on the release timing of information particles. The other two are asynchronous and are based on modulating information on the relative time between two consecutive releases of information particles using indistinguishable or distinguishable particles. All modulation schemes result in a system that relate the transmitted and the received signals through an additive noise, which follows a stable distribution. As the common notion of the variance of a signal is not suitable for defining the power of stable distributed signals (due to infinite variance), we derive an expression for the geometric power of a large class of stable distributions, and then use this result to characterize the geometric signal-to-noise ratio (G-SNR) for each of the modulation techniques. In addition, for binary communication, we derive the optimal detection rules for each modulation technique. Numerical evaluations indicate that the bit error rate (BER) is constant for a given G-SNR, and the performance gain obtained by using synchronized communication is significant. Yet, it is also shown that by using two distinguishable particles per bit instead of one, the BER of the asynchronous technique can approach that of the synchronous one.
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842056
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7842056
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015368798
T3 - 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2016 - Proceedings
BT - 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2016 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 59th IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2016
Y2 - 4 December 2016 through 8 December 2016
ER -