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 language | English |
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| Title of host publication | NanoCom 2026 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 105-106 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 979-8-4007-2767-2 |
| Publication status | Published - 21 Sept 2026 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 13th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication |
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| Abbreviated title | NanoCom 2026 |
| Conference number | 13 |
| Duration | 21 - 23 September 2026 |
| Website | |
| Location | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| City | St. John's |
| Country | Canada |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/231455375 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0001-5410-6810/work/231459027 |