Biochemically-Engineered Molecular Communication Interface and Propagation System

The authors of this paper have proposed the concept of "molecular communication". The molecular communication uses molecules (i.e., chemical signals) as an information medium and allows biological and artificially-created nano- or cell-scale devices to communicate over a short distance. It is a new and biologically inspired communication paradigm and is different from the existing communication paradigm that uses electromagnetic waves (i.e., electronic and optical signals) as an information medium. This paper focuses on designs of a molecular communication interface and a molecular propagation system and their preliminary experiments to show the feasibilities.