Molecular Information Delivery in Porous Media

03/09/2019

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by   Yuting Fang, et al.

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Information delivery via molecular signals is abundant in nature and potentially useful for industry sensing. Many propagation channels (e.g., tissue membranes and catalyst beds) contain porous medium materials and the impact this has on communication performance is not well understood. Here, communication through realistic porous channels is analyzed for the first time via statistical breakthrough curves. Assuming that the number of arrived molecules can be approximated as a Gaussian random variable, analytical results for the throughput, mutual information, error probability, and information diversity gain are presented. Using numerical results, the unique characteristics of the porous medium channel are investigated.