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Spatial modulation for molecular communication

Spatial modulation for molecular communication
Spatial modulation for molecular communication

In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient spatial modulation based molecular communication (SM-MC) scheme, in which a transmitted symbol is composed of two parts, i.e., a space derived symbol and a concentration derived symbol. The space symbol is transmitted by embedding the information into the index of a single activated transmitter nanomachine. The concentration symbol is drawn according to the conventional concentration shift keying (CSK) constellation. Benefiting from a single active transmitter during each symbol period, SMMC can avoid the inter-link interference problem existing in the current multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based MC schemes, which hence enables low-complexity symbol detection and performance improvement. Correspondingly, we propose a low-complexity scheme, which first detects the space symbol by energy comparison, and then detects the concentration symbol by the maximum ratio combining assisted CSK demodulation. In this paper, we analyze the symbol error rate (SER) of the SM-MC and of its special case, namely the space shift keying based MC (SSK-MC), where only space symbol is transmitted and no CSK modulation is invoked. Finally, the analytical results are validated by computer simulations. Our studies demonstrate that both the SSK-MC and SM-MC are capable of achieving better SER performance than the conventional MIMO-MC and single-input single-output based MC, when given the same symbol rate.

inter-link interference, Interference, MIMO, MIMO communication, Modulation, Molecular communication, molecular energy ef?ciency, Nanobioscience, Receivers, spatial modulation, Transmitters, Wireless communication
1536-1241
Huang, Yu
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Wen, Miaowen
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Yang, Lie Liang
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Chae, Chan Byoung
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Ji, Fei
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Huang, Yu
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Wen, Miaowen
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Yang, Lie Liang
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Chae, Chan Byoung
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Ji, Fei
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Huang, Yu, Wen, Miaowen, Yang, Lie Liang, Chae, Chan Byoung and Ji, Fei (2019) Spatial modulation for molecular communication. IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience. (doi:10.1109/TNB.2019.2905254).

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In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient spatial modulation based molecular communication (SM-MC) scheme, in which a transmitted symbol is composed of two parts, i.e., a space derived symbol and a concentration derived symbol. The space symbol is transmitted by embedding the information into the index of a single activated transmitter nanomachine. The concentration symbol is drawn according to the conventional concentration shift keying (CSK) constellation. Benefiting from a single active transmitter during each symbol period, SMMC can avoid the inter-link interference problem existing in the current multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based MC schemes, which hence enables low-complexity symbol detection and performance improvement. Correspondingly, we propose a low-complexity scheme, which first detects the space symbol by energy comparison, and then detects the concentration symbol by the maximum ratio combining assisted CSK demodulation. In this paper, we analyze the symbol error rate (SER) of the SM-MC and of its special case, namely the space shift keying based MC (SSK-MC), where only space symbol is transmitted and no CSK modulation is invoked. Finally, the analytical results are validated by computer simulations. Our studies demonstrate that both the SSK-MC and SM-MC are capable of achieving better SER performance than the conventional MIMO-MC and single-input single-output based MC, when given the same symbol rate.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 March 2019
Keywords: inter-link interference, Interference, MIMO, MIMO communication, Modulation, Molecular communication, molecular energy ef?ciency, Nanobioscience, Receivers, spatial modulation, Transmitters, Wireless communication

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Local EPrints ID: 429645
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/429645
ISSN: 1536-1241
PURE UUID: 85cea466-959b-48eb-954b-e21df905658c
ORCID for Lie Liang Yang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2032-9327

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Date deposited: 03 Apr 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:00

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Author: Yu Huang
Author: Miaowen Wen
Author: Lie Liang Yang ORCID iD
Author: Chan Byoung Chae
Author: Fei Ji

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