Title
Impact of Multiple Fully-Absorbing Receivers in Molecular Communications
Abstract
Molecular communication is a promising solution to enable intra-body communications among nanomachines. However, malicious and non-cooperative receivers can degrade the performance, compromising these systems' security. Analyzing the communication and security performance of these systems requires accurate channel models. However, such models are not present in the literature. In this work, we develop an analytical framework to derive the hitting probability of a molecule on a fully absorbing receiver (FAR) in the presence of other FARs, which can be either be cooperative or malicious. We first present an approximate hitting probability expression for the 3-FARs case. A simplified expression is obtained for the case when FARs are symmetrically positioned. Using the derived expressions, we study the impact of malicious receivers on the intended receiver and discuss how to minimize this impact to obtain a secure communication channel. We also study the gain that can be obtained by the cooperation of these FARs. We then present an approach to extend the analysis for a system with <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$N$</tex> FARs. The derived expressions can be used to analyze and design multiple input/output and secure molecular communication systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ICCWorkshops53468.2022.9814576
2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Molecular communication,multiple fully-absorbing receivers,intra-body communications
Conference
2164-7038
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-2672-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nithin V. Sabu171.92
Abhishek K. Gupta227217.38
Neeraj Varshney300.34
Anshuman Jindal400.34