Trend and challenges of the diffusion-based molecular communication for nanonetworks

Nanonetworking is a promising filed of research, where nanotechonology and communication are applied on a common ground. There are several communication paradigms have been proposed to implement communication at the nano scale. Among them, diffusion based molecular communication (DMC) is the most suitable ways to nanocommunication. However, new several problems occur because of difference principles with the traditional wireless communication. In this work, we research the challenges of the nanonetwork and analyze the characteristics of the nanonetwork through simulation. In addition, We figure out the stacked phenomenon and verify that the number of molecules to send is proportional to r3 as distance increases.

I. Introduction

Nanotechnology is a new, promising field to deal with the development and manufacturing of nano-scale materials and machines. However, because of their tiny size, nano-machines have limitations of processing power, memory storage. Therefore, they can conduct only simple tasks. To take more complex tasks, nano-machines should communicate with each other.