11 papers
VaporISAC: Integrated Sensing and Communication via Molecular Signals
Sunasheer Bhattacharjee, Martín Schottlender, Pit Hofmann +3
Conventional electromagnetic (EM)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems degrade in cluttered, obstructed, and radio-frequency-hostile environments, while macros…
Evaluating Encoding Strategies for Closed-Loop Classification in Biological Neural Networks
Martin Schottlender, Veronika Volkova, Pengjie Zhou +3
Interfacing with Biological Neural Networks (BNNs) requires encoding information into stimulation patterns that can be effectively processed and that enable the underlying system t…
The Shared Prosperity Internet
Juan A. Cabrera, Pit Hofmann, Jonas Schulz +5
The Shared Prosperity Internet (SPI) is a network-computing architecture that makes the benefits of automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) broadly accessible to the society. T…
Molecular ISAC via Markov State-Space Modeling: Joint Distance Sensing and Data Detection
Ruifeng Zheng, Pengjie Zhou, Martín Schottlender +4
This paper develops a molecular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework that exploits the same molecular observations for physical-parameter sensing and data detectio…
Synthetic Biological Intelligence: System-Level Abstractions and Adaptive Bio-Digital Interaction
Martin Schottlender, Pengjie Zhou, Veronika Volkova +5
Concurrent advances across fields such as organoid technology, Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs), neuromorphic computing, and machine learning have given rise to a groundbreaking resear…
Markov State--Space Modeling and Channel Characterization for DNA-Based Molecular Communication
Ruifeng Zheng, Zhihan Xu, Veronika Volkova +5
In this paper, we study DNA-based molecular communication with microarray-style reception under reversible hybridization, where the bound-state observation exhibits both inter-symb…
Modulation, ISI, and Detection for Langmuir Adsorption-Based Microfluidic Molecular Communication
Ruifeng Zheng, Pengjie Zhou, Pit Hofmann +4
This paper studies microfluidic molecular communication receivers with finite-capacity Langmuir adsorption driven by an effective surface concentration. In the reaction-limited reg…
System Modeling of Microfluidic Molecular Communication: A Markov Approach
Ruifeng Zheng, Pengjie Zhou, Pit Hofmann +3
This paper presents a Markov-based system model for microfluidic molecular communication (MC) channels. By discretizing the advection-diffusion dynamics, the proposed model establi…
Communicating Smartly in Molecular Communication Environments: Neural Networks in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things
Jorge Torres Gómez, Pit Hofmann, Lisa Y. Debus +10
Recent developments in the Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) are laying the foundation for innovative healthcare applications that envision a network of remotely coordinated nano…
Exhaled Breath Analysis Through the Lens of Molecular Communication: A Survey
Sunasheer Bhattacharjee, Dadi Bi, Pit Hofmann +10
Molecular Communication (MC) has long been envisioned to enable an Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) with medical applications, where nanomachines within the human body conduct m…
Advanced Plaque Modeling for Atherosclerosis Detection Using Molecular Communication
Alexander Wietfeld, Pit Hofmann, Jonas Fuchtmann +5
As one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide, plaque formation in human arteries, known as atherosclerosis, is the focus of many research efforts. Previously, molecular communic…