The Medium is the Message - Polysemy via Temperature in Molecular Communication

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Abstract

This work-in-progress (WIP) paper studies whether the propagation medium itself can carry information in molecular communication (MC). Inspired by biological polysemy, we propose a temperature-based scheme that encodes binary information in the temperature of the medium while keeping the molecular emission fixed. Through the Stokes-Einstein relation, changing the temperature alters the diffusion the diffusion coefficient and hence the channel impulse response (CIR) observed at the receiver. Simulations show that, near body temperature and at a receiver distance of d = 50 μm, a bit error ratio (BER) below 10−3 is achieved with number of released molecules NTx ≈ 105 per symbol for a temperature difference of ΔT = 5 K. At the limit of the natural daily variation of core body temperature, ΔT ≈ 1 K, the same target requires NTx ≈ 106These results indicate that medium-state modulation can complement molecule-based modulation for context-aware MC systems.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNanoCom 2026 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages105-106
Number of pages2
ISBN (electronic)979-8-4007-2767-2
Publication statusPublished - 21 Sept 2026
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title13th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
Abbreviated titleNanoCom 2026
Conference number13
Duration21 - 23 September 2026
Website
LocationMemorial University of Newfoundland
CitySt. John's
CountryCanada

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/231455375
ORCID /0000-0001-5410-6810/work/231459027