BodyTalks: Connecting in-body nano communication with body area networks (NaBoCom II)

BodyTalks：将体内纳米通信与体域网连接起来 (NaBoCom II)

• 批准号: 419981515
• 负责人: Professor Dr.-Ing. Falko Dressler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Telematik (IMT)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/419981515?language=en
• 关键词: BodyTalks; Connecting; body; nano; communication

Research and development on sensor networks and body area networks (BANs) has gained increased maturity in recent years. Yet, in-body nanonetworks built from nanodevices still represent a new and fascinating direction of research, extending upon and going well beyond sensor networks. The vision is that nanodevices (nanoscale devices), for example, patrol the body, take measurements wherever necessary, and report collected data to the outside. Even better, these machines may immediately work on problems they detect within the body, such as cancer cells, arteriosclerosis, or HI viruses. All this is conducive to reach the ultimate goal of nanonetwork research: medical applications allowing early detection and mitigation of diseases. Precision medicine represents a paradigm shift in medicine, from the traditional, very generalized approach to the treatment of a disease to a strategy for the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of diseases based on a person’s unique characteristics. Nano technologies are more and more considered to be an important part of the implementation; although networked nanosensors are hardly discussed here yet. The overall goal of this project is to explore fundamental limits and new insights on how to connect in-body nanonetworks with body area networks in order to establish a basis for a wide variety of such integrated precision medicine applications. It is designed to run over a six-year period. In the first 24-month funding period, we, in order to pave the way towards this vision, concentrated on a general architecture for such systems and a number of basic building blocks for the technical interconnection of nanonetworks and medical BANs, namely naming and addressing, location-based diffusion, reliability and time bounds, and tool support for simulation. In this second 24-month funding period, we want to dig deeper into several communication aspects of in-body nano communications, especially channel characterization for short-range nano communication, information flow through the human circulatory system, and localization of nano systems within the body. These blocks are supported by further work on integrated simulation-based performance evaluation. In addition, we aim to also initiate closer collaborations with colleagues in medical and life sciences to identify possible ways to turn the investigated nanonetworks into a strong building block for next generation precision medicine applications.

近年来，传感器网络和体域网（BAN）的研究和开发已经越来越成熟。然而，由纳米器件构建的体内纳米网络仍然代表着一个新的迷人的研究方向，它延伸并远远超出了传感器网络。例如，我们的愿景是纳米设备（纳米级设备）可以在身体内巡逻，在必要时进行测量，并将收集到的数据报告给外界。更妙的是，这些机器可以立即处理它们在体内检测到的问题，如癌细胞、动脉硬化或HI病毒。所有这些都有助于实现纳米网络研究的最终目标：允许早期检测和减轻疾病的医疗应用。精准医疗代表了医学的一种范式转变，从传统的、非常普遍的疾病治疗方法转变为基于个人独特特征的疾病预防、诊断和治疗策略。纳米技术越来越多地被认为是实现的重要组成部分;尽管网络化的纳米传感器在这里几乎没有讨论过。该项目的总体目标是探索如何将体内纳米网络与体域网络连接起来的基本限制和新见解，以便为各种集成的精准医学应用奠定基础。计划为期六年。在第一个24个月的资助期内，为了为实现这一愿景铺平道路，我们专注于此类系统的通用架构以及纳米网络和医疗BAN技术互连的一些基本构建模块，即命名和寻址，基于位置的扩散，可靠性和时间范围以及模拟工具支持。在第二个24个月的资助期内，我们希望深入研究体内纳米通信的几个通信方面，特别是短距离纳米通信的通道特性，通过人体循环系统的信息流以及体内纳米系统的定位。这些块的支持下，进一步的工作，综合模拟为基础的性能评价。此外，我们的目标是与医学和生命科学领域的同事开展更密切的合作，以确定将所研究的纳米网络转化为下一代精准医学应用的强大构建模块的可能方法。