Browsing by Author "Tugcu, Tuna"

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Mol-Eye: A New Metric for the Performance Evaluation of a Molecular Signal
(IEEE, 2018) Turan, Meric; Kuran, Mehmet Sukru; Yilmaz, H. Birkan; Chae, Chan-Byoung; Tugcu, Tuna
Inspired by the eye diagram in classical radio frequency (RF) based communications, the MOL-Eye diagram is proposed for the performance evaluation of a molecular signal within the context of molecular communication. Utilizing various features of this diagram, three new metrics for the performance evaluation of a molecular signal, namely the maximum eye height, standard deviation of received molecules, and counting SNR (CSNR) are introduced. The applicability of these performance metrics in this domain is verified by comparing the performance of binary concentration shift keying (BCSK) and BCSK with consecutive power adjustment (BCSK-CPA) modulation techniques in a vessel-like environment with laminar flow. The results show that, in addition to classical performance metrics such as bit-error rate and channel capacity, these performance metrics can also be used to show the advantage of an efficient modulation technique over a simpler one.
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A Novel Pre-Equalization Method for Molecular Communication via Diffusion in Nanonetworks
(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2015) Tepekule, Burcu; Pusane, Ali E.; Kuran, Mehmet Sukru; Tugcu, Tuna
In this letter, a novel pre-equalization method in the context of molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is proposed. Our method is based on the emission of two types of messenger molecules (MMs) from the transmitter in order to mitigate the high intersymbol interference (ISI), which critically hinders the performance of any MCvD system. In this approach, the difference between the number of received molecules of each MM type is considered as the actual signal at the receiver side. We model the underlying diffusion channel, and conduct an analysis on the error performance of the proposed method. We compare the proposed method with other modulation and ISI mitigation techniques in the literature, such as concentration shift keying, molecular shift keying, molecular concentration shift keying, and minimum mean squared equalization. Simulation results show that, by tuning the delay value between the emissions of the two MM types and their respective molecule counts, the proposed pre-equalization method outperforms the aforementioned methods and reduces the bit error rate of the MCvD system significantly.
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Transmitter Localization in Vessel-Like Diffusive Channels Using Ring-Shaped Molecular Receivers
(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2018) Turan, Meric; Akdeniz, Bayram Cevdet; Kuran, Mehmet Comma Sukru; Yilmaz, H. Birkan; Demirkol, Ilker; Pusane, Ali E.; Tugcu, Tuna
Molecular communication via diffusion in vessellike environment targets critical applications such as the detection of abnormal and unhealthy cells. In this letter, we derive the analytical formulation of the channel model for diffusion dominated movement, considering ring-shaped (i. e., patch) observing receivers, and Poiseuille flow with the aim of localization of the transmitter cell. Then, we derive formulations using this channel model for two different application scenarios. We assume that the emission start time is known in the first scenario and unknown in the second one. We successfully localize the transmitter cell using a single receiver for the first scenario, whereas two receivers are used to localize the transmitter cell in the second scenario. At last, the devised analytical framework is validated with simulations.
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Understanding Communication via Diffusion: Simulation Design and Intricacies
(Springer International Publishing AG, 2017) Acar, Bilal; Akkaya, Ali; Genc, Gaye; Yilmaz, H. Birkan; Kuran, M. Sukru; Tugcu, Tuna
Understanding Communication via Diffusion (CvD) is key to molecular communications research since it dominates the movement at the nano-scale. The researcher needs to properly understand the random diffusion of the molecules for the analysis of a molecular communication system. This chapter aims explaining the dynamics of diffusion from a communication engineer's perspective as well as providing useful hints for an effective simulation design by discussing some key intricacies. The chapter starts with a brief survey of simulators for molecular communications, followed by the basics of the simulation of Brownian motion and CvD. Several intricacies are addressed to help the researcher in simulation design, such as the number of replications required in terms of movement and bit sequence. We utilize this information further by discussing the design of more complex CvD systems such as tunnel-based approach that utilizes destroyer molecules and distributed simulator design based on HLA. Introduction of more complex CvD systems provides significant improvements in data rate and communications in general, bridging the gap between human-scale and nano-scale systems and enabling nanonetworking as a viable technology.