Comments on: Nanosensors

By: AndrewMcFaul

AndrewMcFaul — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:57:22 +0000

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By: janiceenberg

janiceenberg — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:01:19 +0000

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By: F Walsh

F Walsh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:59:39 +0000

In answer to post no.5, as far as I know no noise models exist for such biochemical communication channels.
However, some recent works do address information capacity, namely Andrew Eckford’s work on nano-communication with brownian motion (https://wiki.cse.yorku.ca/user/aeckford/publications:start) and Tom Schneider’s work on infomration capacity of molecular machines (http://www-lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/).
I also think that a switching function is achievable, such as the technique described in the paper, particularly if membrane nanotubes are used in these networks.

By: M S Gaur

M S Gaur — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:37:33 +0000

A couple of questions for Paper – 3 “Hitting time analysis for stochastic communication”.
1. In what way the router switching fabric shall be affected while working in stochastic communication? How do we model them for simulation?
2. In a situation when we will have multiple data streams competing to get the links will emanate from different src-dst pairs, there may be a lot of replication of the flits and consequent power waste and also buffer occupancy. Will it be providing sufficiently attractive solution in such situations?
3. What are the environment parameters of the particles (n, alpha, pi, k)?

By: M S Gaur

M S Gaur — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:45:55 +0000

This is also a related question to Network layers for molecular communication(Paper-2 or session -1, September 15, 2008). Do we have any proposed or studied models for noise and error injection into molecular communication? How the errors are detected (if at all) in biological systems and then corrected? Also in general do we look for point to point communication or switched communication requiring routing/switching?

By: M S Gaur

M S Gaur — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:41:03 +0000

This question is directed to the I paper of Session 1. In biologically inspired molecular communication system, can we at all decide and direct the direction of communication or by nature it will remain probabilistic or random? If it is expected to be random how with the given velocity parameters can we find the communication delay at this level?

By: Blaise Mouttet

Blaise Mouttet — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:20:13 +0000

This question is directed to the entire nano-sensors workshop:

To my knowledge most practical nanoscale fabrication falls into one of two camps -”on substrate” processing (such as used in fabricating MEMS sensors) and “in solution” processing (such as used in forming colloidal quantum dots used as biotags).

The “on substrate” approach is usually good for integrating with CMOS or other technology capable of providing some degree of “intelligence” but may lack the capability to form robotic structures on the nanoscale due to stiction and lithography limitations.

The “in solution” approach is good for engineering nanoscale particles and biostructures but may lack a methodology to add any form of intelligence to the manufactured nanostructures.

Which of these approaches are seen to more likely lead to the creation of “swarm robotics” (or is there a third alternative?)

By: Sanjay Goel

Sanjay Goel — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:10:33 +0000

Here is my set of questions for the workshop/conference participants.

1. Self-organization is inherent in several complex systems with applications in social networking, sensor communication, social behavior of animals, etc. Is there a common theory that transcends different applications?

2. What can we learn from self-organization in other fields that can be applied to nanosensor self-organization?

Thanks,
Sanjay

By: Stephen F Bush

Stephen F Bush — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:27:36 +0000

This question is directed to the entire nano-sensors workshop:
What publicly available platforms exist for accurately simulating nanoscale systems?

This question is also directed to the entire nano-sensors workshop:
What is the current state of nano-scale wireless communications?

This question is also directed to the entire nano-sensors workshop:
What is the most efficient form of nanoscale communication?

This question is directed to the Model and Standards Session (Session 4):
What standards (e.g. IEEE) currently exist for nano-scale and quantum networking?