Theory and practice of molecular communication

这个建议涉及分子通讯。分子通信是一种迅速兴起的技术，具有许多应用，包括纳米网络和恶劣环境中的通信。使用分子通信，发射器通过释放分子模式来编码信息，并使用布朗运动等物理原理将这些信息传递给接收器。例如，可以通过释放一个或多个可检测化合物的分子（例如乙醇（表示1））或不释放任何物质（表示0）来发送比特，作为开关键控的形式。这种化合物可以通过自由扩散从发射器传播到接收器，接收器上的乙醇检测器将测量分子何时到达。本例中的噪声采用分子随机传播过程或检测器中噪声的形式。在分子通信文献中已经提出和研究了许多其他调制技术。

This proposal concerns molecular communication. Molecular communication is a rapidly emerging technique with numerous applications, including nanoscale networking and communication in harsh environments. Using molecular communication, the transmitter encodes messages by releasing patterns of molecules, and conveys those messages to the receiver using physical principles such as Brownian motion. For example, a bit could be sent by releasing one or more molecules of a detectable compound such as ethanol (representing 1), or releasing nothing (representing 0), as a form of on-off keying. The compound could propagate from transmitter to receiver using free diffusion, and an ethanol detector at the receiver would measure when the molecules arrive. Noise in this example takes the form of either the random propagation process of the molecules, or noise in the detector. Many other modulation techniques have been proposed and studied in the molecular communication literature.