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Multipath Channel Metrics and Detection in Vascular Molecular Communication: A Wireless-Inspired Perspective
Timo Jakumeit, Lukas Brand, Josep M. Jornet +3
Motivated by classical communications engineering, early works in molecular communication (MC) largely adopted established modeling and signal processing concepts from wireless ele…
Vessel Network Topology in Molecular Communication: Insights from Experiments and Theory
Timo Jakumeit, Lukas Brand, Jens Kirchner +2
The notion of synthetic molecular communication (MC) refers to the transmission of information via signaling molecules and is foreseen to enable innovative medical applications in…
Modulation Schemes for Functionalized Vesicle-based MC Transmitters
Teena tom Dieck, Lukas Brand, Sebastian Lotter +3
Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange through the transmission of signaling molecules (SMs) and holds promise for many innovative applications. However, most ex…
Molecular Communication for Gastroretentive Drug Delivery
Sebastian Lotter, Marco Seiter, Maryam Pirmoradi +3
Recently, bacterial nanocellulose (BNC), a biological material produced by non-pathogenic bacteria that possesses excellent material properties for various medical applications, ha…
Closed-Loop Molecular Communication with Local and Global Degradation: Modeling and ISI Analysis
Lukas Brand, Fardad Vakilipoor, Sören Botsch +4
This paper presents a novel physics-based model for signal propagation in closed-loop molecular communication (MC) systems, which are particularly relevant for many envisioned biom…
Closed-Loop Long-Term Experimental Molecular Communication System
Maike Scherer, Lukas Brand, Louis Wolf +7
We present a fluid-based experimental molecular communication (MC) testbed which uses media modulation. Motivated by the natural human cardiovascular system, the testbed operates i…
Molecular Signal Reception in Complex Vessel Networks: The Role of the Network Topology
Timo Jakumeit, Lukas Brand, Jens Kirchner +2
The notion of synthetic molecular communication (MC) refers to the transmission of information via molecules and is largely foreseen for use within the human body, where traditiona…
The Chorioallantoic Membrane Model: A 3D in vivo Testbed for Design and Analysis of MC Systems
Maximilian Schäfer, Andreas Ettner-Sitter, Lukas Brand +5
Molecular Communications (MC) research is increasingly focused on applications within the human body, such as health monitoring and drug delivery. These applications require testin…
Practical Transmitters for Molecular Communication: Functionalized Nanodevices Employing Cooperative Transmembrane Transport Proteins
Teena tom Dieck, Lukas Brand, Lea Erbacher +5
This paper introduces a novel optically controllable molecular communication (MC) transmitter (TX) design based on vesicular nanodevices (NDs). The NDs are functionalized for the c…
Closing the Implementation Gap in MC: Fully Chemical Synchronization and Detection for Cellular Receivers
Bastian Heinlein, Lukas Brand, Malcolm Egan +3
In the context of the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), nano-devices are envisioned to perform complex tasks collaboratively, i.e., by communicating with each other. One candida…
Semantic Information in MC: Chemotaxis Beyond Shannon
Lukas Brand, Yan Wang, Maurizio Magarini +2
The recently emerged molecular communication (MC) paradigm intends to leverage communication engineering tools for the design of synthetic chemical communication systems. These sys…
Closed Loop Molecular Communication Testbed: Setup, Interference Analysis, and Experimental Results
Lukas Brand, Maike Scherer, Teena tom Dieck +6
In this paper, we present a fluid-based experimental molecular communication (MC) testbed that, similar to the human cardiovascular system, operates in a closed circuit tube system…
Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks for MAP Detection in Cellular Receivers
Bastian Heinlein, Lukas Brand, Malcolm Egan +3
In order to fully exploit the potential of molecular communication (MC) for intra-body communication, practically implementable cellular receivers are an important long-term goal.…
Microparticle-based Controlled Drug Delivery Systems: From Experiments to Statistical Analysis and Design
Sebastian Lotter, Tom Bellmann, Sophie Marx +5
Controlled drug delivery (CDD), the controlled release and delivery of therapeutic drugs inside the human body, is a promising approach to increase the efficacy of drug administrat…
Switchable Signaling Molecules for Media Modulation: Fundamentals, Applications, and Research Directions
Lukas Brand, Maike Scherer, Sebastian Lotter +6
Although visionary applications of molecular communication (MC), such as long-term continuous health monitoring by cooperative in-body nanomachines, have been proposed, MC is still…
Experimental Research in Synthetic Molecular Communications -- Part II: Long-Range Communication
Sebastian Lotter, Lukas Brand, Vahid Jamali +10
In this second part of our survey on experimental research in Synthetic Molecular Communication (SMC), we review works on long-range SMC systems, i.e., systems with communication r…
Experimental Research in Synthetic Molecular Communications -- Part I: Overview and Short-Range Systems
Sebastian Lotter, Lukas Brand, Vahid Jamali +10
Since its emergence from the communication engineering community around one and a half decades ago, the field of Synthetic Molecular Communication (SMC) has experienced continued g…
Controlled Signaling and Transmitter Replenishment for MC with Functionalized Nanoparticles
Maximilian Schäfer, Lukas Brand, Sebastian Lotter +6
In this paper, we propose novel Transmitter (Tx) models for Molecular Communication (MC) systems based on functionalized Nanoparticles (NPs). Current Tx models often rely on simpli…
Media Modulation based Molecular Communication
Lukas Brand, Moritz Garkisch, Sebastian Lotter +5
In conventional molecular communication (MC) systems, the signaling molecules used for information transmission are stored, released, and then replenished by a transmitter (TX). Ho…
Pulse Shaping for MC via Particle Size
Wayan Wicke, Rebecca C. Felsheim, Lukas Brand +4
In molecular communication (MC), combining different types of particles at the transmitter is a degree of freedom which can be utilized to improve performance. In this paper, we ad…
Area Rate Efficiency in Multi-Link Molecular Communications
Lukas Brand, Sebastian Lotter, Vahid Jamali +2
We consider a multi-link diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system where multiple spatially distributed transmitter (TX)-receiver (RX) pairs establish point-to-point comm…
Media Modulation in Molecular Communications
Lukas Brand, Moritz Garkisch, Sebastian Lotter +3
In conventional molecular communication (MC) systems, the signaling molecules used for information transmission are stored, released, and then replenished by a transmitter (TX). Ho…
Area Rate Efficiency in Molecular Communications
Lukas Brand, Sebastian Lotter, Vahid Jamali +1
We consider a multiuser diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system where multiple spatially distributed transmitter (TX)-receiver (RX) pairs establish point-to-point commu…
Statistical Modeling of Airborne Virus Transmission Through Imperfectly Fitted Face Masks
Sebastian Lotter, Lukas Brand, Maximilian Schäfer +1
The rapid emergence and the disastrous impact of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic on public health, societies, and economies around the wor…