Molecular Communication With Langmuir Adsorption Kinetics: Channel Characteristics and Temporal Memory
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Abstract
This letter presents a molecular communication receiver model grounded in Langmuir adsorption kinetics, offering a physically consistent alternative to passive and fully absorbing models. The receiver detects information molecules through reversible binding to a finite number of surface-anchored receptors (probes), thereby capturing the saturation and competition effects in realistic biosensing environments. We derive closed-form solutions for finite-duration pulse inputs under reaction-limited conditions and propose simplified asymptotic approximations for short- and long-pulse regimes, which accurately characterize the binding dynamics under limited receptor availability. An equivalent resistor-capacitor circuit analogy is introduced, mapping molecular binding and unbinding to time-varying and fixed resistances. Particle-based Monte Carlo simulations verify that the proposed model accurately captures the channel behavior and temporal memory of realistic biochemical receivers with finite receptor capacity.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 787-791 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE communications letters |
| Volume | 30 |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2026 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/204614759 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0001-5410-6810/work/204620133 |
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Keywords
- Biosensors, channel characteristics, Langmuir adsorption, molecular communication, receiver