Mobile molecular communications: Positional-distance codes

Song Qiu, Taufiq Asyhari, Weisi Guo

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    Abstract

    Molecular communications between mobile nano-robots will likely yield bit transposition errors. In such a scenario, it is important to design and test a new family of appropriate forward-error-correction codes. In this paper, we first construct a proof-of-concept robot to demonstrate how transposition errors arise. We then review state-of-the-art research in positional-distance codes and implement such codes onto the robot to achieve reliable mobile molecular communications. In order to imitate a large number of transposition errors, we model the mobile molecular communication channel as a double random walk channel. The results show that the positional-distance codes can achieve a superior performance over classical Hamming-distance codes and the performance is not sensitive to the initial starting position of the robots.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Number of pages5
    Volume2016-August
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509017492
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 9 Aug 2016
    Event17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2016 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Duration: 3 Jul 20166 Jul 2016

    Conference

    Conference17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityEdinburgh
    Period3/07/166/07/16

    Keywords

    • Mobile communication
    • Receivers
    • Molecular communication
    • Robots
    • Encoding
    • Hamming distance
    • Nanobioscience

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Information Systems

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