Quick system design of vesicle-based active transport molecular communication by using a simple transport model

This paper will provide a guidepost to design an optimal molecular communication setup and protocol. A barrier to the design of vesicle-based molecular communication nanonetworks is the computational complexity of simulating them. In this paper, a computationally efficient transport model is presented, which could be employed to design active transport molecular communication systems, particularly to optimize the shape of the transmission zone. Furthermore, a vesicular encapsulation model is presented as an addition to the transport model, and it is shown that there exists an optimal vesicle size for each molecular communication channel. As an application, our transport model is used to estimate the channel capacity of a molecular communication

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