TDMA-MTMR-Based Molecular Communication With Ligand-Binding Reception

Multiple access-based molecular communication (MC) is an important way to implement MC nanonetworks for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things. In this letter, we propose a framework for time division multiple access (TDMA)-based MC by considering multiple-type transmission multiple-type reception (MTMR) for a system with multiple transmitter nanomachines and one receiver nanomachine (RN) which is non-ideal and has a switching delay. The reception process is based on ligand-binding reception. We study the drug release management approaches by minimizing the error probability. Besides, we propose a metric to find signal-to-interference ratio based on the channel memory. Analytical results, which are verified by the simulation, show that the TDMA-MTMR MC outperforms the state-of-the-art TDMA framework.