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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)787-791
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE communications letters
Volume30
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2026
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/204614759
ORCID /0000-0001-5410-6810/work/204620133

Keywords

Keywords

  • Biosensors, channel characteristics, Langmuir adsorption, molecular communication, receiver