Arrival modeling and error analysis for molecular communication via diffusion with drift

H. Birkan Yilmaz, Chan Byoung Chae, Burcu Tepekule, Ali E. Pusane

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Abstract

The arrival of molecules in molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is a counting process and exhibits binomial distribution by its nature. Even if the arrival of molecules is described well by the binomial process, the binomial cumulative distribution function (CDF) is difficult to work with when considering consecutively sent symbols. Therefore, in the literature, Poisson and Gaussian approximations of the binomial distribution are used. In this paper, we analyze these two approximations of the binomial model of the arrival process in MCvD with drift. We investigate the regions in which either Poisson or Gaussian model is better in terms of root mean squared error (RMSE) of the CDFs with varying the distance, drift velocity, and the number of emitted molecules. Moreover, we confirm the boundaries of the region via numerical simulations and derive the error probabilities for continuous communication and analyze which model approximates it more accurately.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, ACM NANOCOM 2015
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450336741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015 Sept 21
Event2nd ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, ACM NANOCOM 2015 - Boston, United States
Duration: 2015 Sept 212015 Sept 22

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, ACM NANOCOM 2015

Other

Other2nd ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, ACM NANOCOM 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period15/9/2115/9/22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the “IT Consilience Creative Program” (IITP-2015-R0346-15-1008) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion) and by the Basic Science Research Program (2014R1A1A1002186) funded by the MSIP, Korea, through the National Research Foundation of Korea.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Communication

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