Inter-user interference in molecular communication networks

As the nanotechnology becomes more and more mature, the concept of nano communication emerged and attracted lots of researchers' attention. To implement the nano communication system, the diffusion-based molecular communication is considered as a promising bio-inspired approach, where the nano transmitter emits molecules into the medium to transmit data and the nano receiver absorbs molecules from the medium to receive data. Since all the nano machines share the same propagation medium and the molecules are identical, the interference among nano transmitters are unavoidable. In this paper, we analyze the inter-symbol and inter-user interference in the diffusion-based molecular communication systems. Based on the interference analysis, we further study the bit error rate performance and derive the optimal decision threshold for the nano receiver. Simulation results are shown to verify our analysis.