Mobile Two-Way Molecular Communication via Diffusion Using Amplify-and-Forward and Analog Network Coding
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Abstract:
Mobile molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) has attracted lots of attentions due to its time-varying channels. In this paper, we investigate a mobile two-way MCvD model, which consists of two mobile source nanomachines and a mobile relay nanomachine. The amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying and analog network coding (ANC) are utilized to implement the exchange of information between two source nanomachines in this model. To explore the performance of the mobile two-way MCvD system, we first adopt the depleted molecule shift keying (D-MoSK) modulation, and then the mathematical expressions of symbol error probability (SEP) and mutual information are derived by using AF and ANC scheme on the basis of maximum a posteriori (MAP) probability detection. Finally, we present the numerical and simulation results. Compared with the AF-No-ANC scheme which is without use of ANC scheme, the scheme of combining AF and ANC can significantly improve the performance of SEP and mutual information. Moreover, the D-MoSK modulation outperforms the molecule shift keying (MoSK) modulation for this mobile two-way MCvD system. In addition, we propose the evaluation and discussion about the impacts of several important parameters on the performance of this system. These results can be used to design mobile two-way MCvD system with lower SEP and higher mutual information.
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