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Multi-User Diversity Scaling in Heavy-Tailed Fading
Yonathan Murin, Ali Özer Ercan, Nariman Farsad
Classical multi-user diversity theory predicts that throughput over Rayleigh fading channels grows as . In this work, we demonstrate a fundamental shift in this s…
Neural Capacity Estimators: How Reliable Are They?
Farhad Mirkarimi, Stefano Rini, Nariman Farsad
Recently, several methods have been proposed for estimating the mutual information from sample data using deep neural networks and without the knowing closed form distribution of t…
Neural Computation of Capacity Region of Memoryless Multiple Access Channels
Farhad Mirkarimi, Nariman Farsad
This paper provides a numerical framework for computing the achievable rate region of memoryless multiple access channel (MAC) with a continuous alphabet from data. In particular,…
Sparse Multi-Decoder Recursive Projection Aggregation for Reed-Muller Codes
Dorsa Fathollahi, Nariman Farsad, Seyyed Ali Hashemi +1
Reed-Muller (RM) codes are one of the oldest families of codes. Recently, a recursive projection aggregation (RPA) decoder has been proposed, which achieves a performance that is c…
Capacities and Optimal Input Distributions for Particle-Intensity Channels
Nariman Farsad, Will Chuang, Andrea Goldsmith +6
This work introduces the particle-intensity channel (PIC) as a model for molecular communication systems and characterizes the capacity limits as well as properties of the optimal…
Diffusive Molecular Communications with Reactive Molecules: Channel Modeling and Signal Design
Vahid Jamali, Nariman Farsad, Robert Schober +1
This paper focuses on molecular communication (MC) systems using two types of signaling molecules which may participate in a reversible bimolecular reaction in the channel. The mot…
Deep Learning for Joint Source-Channel Coding of Text
Nariman Farsad, Milind Rao, Andrea Goldsmith
We consider the problem of joint source and channel coding of structured data such as natural language over a noisy channel. The typical approach to this problem in both theory and…
Exploiting Diversity in Molecular Timing Channels via Order Statistics
Yonathan Murin, Nariman Farsad, Mainak Chowdhury +1
We study diversity in one-shot communication over molecular timing channels. We consider a channel model where the transmitter simultaneously releases a large number of information…
Diffusive Molecular Communications with Reactive Signaling
Vahid Jamali, Nariman Farsad, Robert Schober +1
This paper focuses on molecular communication (MC) systems where the signaling molecules may participate in a reversible bimolecular reaction in the channel. The motivation for stu…
Diversity gain of one-shot communication over molecular timing channels
Yonathan Murin, Mainak Chowdhury, Nariman Farsad +1
We study diversity in one-shot communication over molecular timing channels. In the considered channel model the transmitter simultaneously releases a large number of information p…
Optimal Detection for Diffusion-Based Molecular Timing Channels
Yonathan Murin, Nariman Farsad, Mainak Chowdhury +1
This work studies optimal detection for communication over diffusion-based molecular timing (DBMT) channels. The transmitter simultaneously releases multiple information particles,…
Non-Coherent Detection for Diffusive Molecular Communications
Vahid Jamali, Nariman Farsad, Robert Schober +1
We study non-coherent detection schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems that do not require knowledge of the channel state information (CSI). In particular, we first deriv…
SCW Codes for Maximum Likelihood Detection in Diffusive Molecular Communications without Channel State Information
Vahid Jamali, Arman Ahmadzadeh, Nariman Farsad +1
Instantaneous or statistical channel state information (CSI) is needed for most detection schemes developed for molecular communication (MC) systems. Since the MC channel changes o…
Capacity of Molecular Channels with Imperfect Particle-Intensity Modulation and Detection
Nariman Farsad, Christopher Rose, Muriel Médard +1
This work introduces the particle-intensity channel (PIC) as a model for molecular communication systems and characterizes the properties of the optimal input distribution and the…
SCW Codes for Optimal CSI-Free Detection in Diffusive Molecular Communications
Vahid Jamali, Arman Ahmadzadeh, Nariman Farsad +1
Instantaneous or statistical channel state information (CSI) is needed for most detection schemes developed in the molecular communication (MC) literature. Since the MC channel cha…
On the Impact of Time-Synchronization in Molecular Timing Channels
Nariman Farsad, Yonathan Murin, Weisi Guo +3
This work studies the impact of time- synchronization in molecular timing (MT) channels by analyzing three different modulation techniques. The first requires transmitter-receiver…
On the Capacity of Diffusion-Based Molecular Timing Channels
Nariman Farsad, Yonathan Murin, Andrew Eckford +1
This work introduces capacity limits for molecular timing (MT) channels, where information is modulated on the release timing of small information particles, and decoded from the t…
Capacity Limits of Diffusion-Based Molecular Timing Channels
Nariman Farsad, Yonathan Murin, Andrew Eckford +1
This work introduces capacity limits for molecular timing (MT) channels, where information is modulated in the release timing of small information particles, and decoded from the t…
Stable Distributions as Noise Models for Molecular Communication
Nariman Farsad, Weisi Guo, Chan-Byoung Chae +1
In this work, we consider diffusion-based molecular communication timing channels. Three different timing channels are presented based on three different modulation techniques, i.e…
Design and Optimizing of On-Chip Kinesin Substrates for Molecular Communication
Nariman Farsad, Andrew W. Eckford, Satoshi Hiyama
Lab-on-chip devices and point-of-care diagnostic chip devices are composed of many different components such as nanosensors that must be able to communicate with other components w…