Diversity in diffusion-based molecular communication channel with drift

Abstract

We utilize the well known Additive Inverse Gaussian Noise (AIGN) communication channel to investigate the effect of diversity in diffusion-based molecular communication with drift, where the transmitter releases different types of molecules to the fluid medium by encoding the information onto the release time and type of molecules. The fluid channel imposes extra delay on the communication, and the receiver decodes the encoded information by solely utilizing the molecular arrival times. In this paper, simple receiver models based on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) are investigated. Furthermore, upper and lower bounds on the capacity of AIGN communication channel with molecular diversity are derived.