Paper Info
Title
When bacteria talk: Time elapse communication for super-slow networks.
Abstract
In this work we consider nano-scale communication using bacterial populations as transceivers. We demonstrate using a microfluidic test-bed and a population of genetically engineered Escherichia coli bacteria serving as the communication receiver that a simple modulation like on-off keying (OOK) is indeed achievable, but suffers from very poor data-rates. We explore an alternative communication strategy called time elapse communication (TEC) that uses the time period between signals to encode information. We identify the severe limitations of TEC under practical non-zero error conditions in the target environment, and propose an advanced communication strategy called smart time elapse communication (TEC-SMART) that achieves over a 10x improvement in data-rate over OOK.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICC.2013.6655625
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
amplitude shift keying,data communication,encoding,microorganisms,radio receivers,radio transceivers,OOK,TEC-SMART,bacterial populations,communication receiver,communication strategy,data rates,genetically engineered Escherichia coli bacteria,information encoding,microfluidic test-bed,modulation,molecular communication,nano-scale communication,nonzero error conditions,on-off keying,super-slow networks,time elapse communication,transceivers,Molecular communication,On-Off Keying,Time Elapse Communication
Population,Molecular communication,Transceiver,Computer science,Keying,Amplitude-shift keying,Computer network,Real-time computing,On-off keying,TEC,Encoding (memory)
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
1
0.38
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bhuvana Krishnaswamy1597.60
Caitlin M. Henegar210.38
J. Patrick Bardill3241.57
Daniel Russakow4241.57
Gregory L. Holst5241.57
Brian K. Hammer6664.86
Craig R. Forest7736.10
Raghupathy Sivakumar82679340.00