Mobile Molecular Communication Through Multiple Measurements of the Concentration of Molecules

Multiple measurements of the concentration of molecules serve as a useful technique to enable bio-nanomachines to reliably extract information encoded in the concentration of molecules. In this paper, we develop mathematical models to examine the impact of multiple measurements of the concentration of molecules on the performance of mobile molecular communication taking into account the constrains associated with the systems. In this scenario, a mobile transmitter bio-nanomachine releases a pre-defined number of molecules and a mobile receiver bio-nanomachine receives information by measuring the concentration of these molecules on multiple occasions. Numerical results obtained using the models show that multiple measurements of the concentration of molecules serve as an effective means to improve mobile molecular communication performance.