Decision-making Strategy of Channel Switching in Molecular Communication Networks

This paper investigates the switching functionality for molecular communication networks. In particular, we design channel switches for molecular communication among biological cells through calcium signaling. We adopt stochastic noisy channels to design the channel switching with a stochastic process. First, a basic design of channel switches is presented considering variational gating of gap junction channels and noise. Then, we propose the decision-making problem of channel switches. After that, we propose a strategy using the support vector machine tool for the channel switching. The simulation results show that decision-making problem of channel switches could be properly solved with an accepted performance. The results also indicate that complex molecular communication networks may be designed using channel switches.

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