Study of environmental effects on the connectivity of molecular communication based Internet of Nano things

Internet of Nano-things (IoNT) is an interconnection of nano scale devices (nano-things) with the Internet. These futuristic networks are expected to cover a wide range of applications like Biomedical, Industrial and consumer goods, military and environmental monitoring. Although such networks have not been developed so far, an exhaustive study of networking and communication aspects is required in order to set a sound theoretical background for physical implementation. In this paper, connectivity of molecular communication based IoNT is investigated under variable environmental conditions. A closed form expression for the connectivity is determined in terms of temperature (Temp) and relative concentration of physical obstructions (X). MATLAB simulations reveal that Pconn gets affected less by changes in Temp and X, when no interference is present in the received signal. Hence it is necessary to mitigate interference to obtain stable connectivity over dynamic environmental conditions.