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Heartbeat Aware Decoding in Molecular Networks

Wang, Jiaming
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Zavareh, Samin Beheshti
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Hassanieh, Haitham  
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2025
Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025)

Molecular communication (MC) is a competitive candidate of implementing the long-lasting in-body communication for the body-area medical network, considering its unparalleled advantages over conventional wireless communication in bio-compatibility. Blood vessel is a common topic and the influence of blood flow on the propagation of molecular signals has been studied. However, one of the most significant features was overlooked by all past work-blood is a periodic flow with varying rate, so the channel response varies across time. This is similar to the fast-varying channel in conventional wireless systems, but the molecular condition could be much worse because the channel can vary from symbol to next, so using average flow speed for approximation is far from reality. This paper proposes FlowLink to compensate for the drastic channel variation. FlowLink employs a flow meter and records the real-time flow rate, which accumulates over time and forms a 'flow axis'. By resampling the receiver signal on this flow axis with a fixed flow interval, FlowLink compensates for the varying channel response and restores the coherence time requirement for packet-based communication. FlowLink is evaluated on a vessel-like testbed with a periodic flow mimicking blood, which demonstrates an average improvement in decoding BER of 40% compared to conventional flow-unaware decoder.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/INFOCOM55648.2025.11044658
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105011068336

Author(s)
Wang, Jiaming

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Zavareh, Samin Beheshti

University of Bern

Hassanieh, Haitham  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Krishnaswamy, Bhuvana

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date Issued

2025

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Published in
Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISBN of the book

9798331543051

ISSN (of the series)

0743-166X

Subjects

blood flow

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communication

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decoding

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heartbeat

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molec-ular communication

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wireless communication

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IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025)

London, United Kingdom

2025-05-19 - 2025-05-22

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July 29, 2025
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