Nanoscale Communication Networks

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Stephen F. Bush(Author)

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Nanoscale Communication Networks
Contents
Preface
OBJECTIVE
GENESIS
APPROACH AND CONTENT
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Towards Nanonetworks
1.1 BRIEF HISTORICAL CONTEXT
1.2 NANOROBOTICS
1.3 DEFINITION OF NANONETWORKS
1.3.1 Requirements to be a nanonetwork
1.3.2 Driving forces behind nanoscale networking
1.3.3 Defined in relation to sensor networks
1.4 REVIEW OF NANOTECHNOLOGY RELATED TO COMMUNICATIONS
1.4.1 Nanotechnology for high-frequency classical wireless transmission
1.4.2 System-on-chip
1.5 TODAY'S SENSOR NETWORKS
1.5.1 Wireless sensor networks
1.5.2 Antenna
1.6 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICS AND INFORMATION
1.6.1 Physical entropy
1.6.2 Thermodynamics
1.6.3 Physics of information
1.6.4 A brief introduction to quantum phenomena
1.7 NEED FOR SELF-ASSEMBLY
1.7.1 Self-assembly for nanotube alignment
1.7.2 Self-assembly, complexity, and information theory
1.7.3 Active networking at the nanoscale
1.8 NEED FOR NANOSCALE INFORMATION THEORY
1.8.1 Capacity of networks
1.9 SUMMARY
1.10 EXERCISES
Chapter 2 Molecular Motor Communication
2.1 MOLECULAR MOTORS ON RAILS
2.1.1 Where molecular motors are found and used in nature
2.1.2 Random walk and Brownian motion
2.1.3 Molecular motor operation: The mechanics of walking
2.2 THERMODYNAMICS OF MOLECULAR MOTORS
2.3 MICROTUBULES
2.3.1 Topology and persistence length
2.3.2 Towards routing and the ability to steer molecular motors
2.4 INTERFACING WITH MOLECULAR MOTORS
2.5 MOTOR VELOCITY, RELIABILITY, AND BANDWIDTH-DELAY PRODUCT
2.5.1 Automatic repeat request and reliable molecular motor communication channels
2.5.2 Genetic communication and error correction
2.6 INFORMATION THEORY AND MOLECULAR MOTOR PAYLOAD CAPACITY
2.6.1 Payload and information capacity
2.6.2 DNA computing for nanoscale communication
2.7 OTHER TYPES OF MOTORS
2.7.1 Flagellar motors
2.7.2 Synthetic DNA motors
2.7.3 Catalytic motors
2.8 SUMMARY
2.9 EXERCISES
Chapter 3 Gap Junction and Cell Signaling
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.1.1 Calcium signaling in nature
3.1.2 Gap junction signaling
3.1.3 Intercell signaling
3.1.4 Long-distance nanoscale biological signaling
3.2 GAP JUNCTIONS
3.2.1 Liposomes: artificial containers
3.3 CELL SIGNALING
3.3.1 Network coding
3.4 MODELING BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL PROPAGATION AND DIFFUSION
3.4.1 Information concentration and propagation distance
3.4.2 Calcium waves
3.4.3 Calcium stores and relays
3.4.4 Gene and metabolic communication networks
3.5 OLFACTORY AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION
3.5.1 Memristors
3.5.2 Quorum sensing
3.5.3 Pheromone communication models and analysis
3.5.4 Neuronal communication
3.6 INFORMATION THEORETIC ASPECTS
3.6.1 Stochastic resonance
3.6.2 Towards human-engineered nanoscale biological communication networks
3.7 SUMMARY
3.8 EXERCISES
Chapter 4 Carbon Nanotube-Based Nanonetworks
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.1.1 Comparison with microtubules
4.1.2 Nanotubes and biology
4.2 NANOTUBES AS FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS
4.2.1 Electron transport
4.3 NANOTUBES AND QUANTUM COMPUTING
4.4 A SINGLE CARBON NANOTUBE RADIO
4.5 NANOTUBES AND GRAPH THEORY
4.5.1 Eigensystem network analysis
4.6 NANOTUBES AND SELF-ASSEMBLY
4.6.1 Active networking
4.6.2 Nanoscale active networking and routing
4.7 SEMIRANDOM CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORKS
4.7.1 Characteristics of a semirandom nanotube network
4.7.2 Data transmission in a semirandom nanotube network
4.7.3 Routing in a semirandom nanotube network
4.8 SUMMARY
4.9 EXERCISES
Chapter 5 Nanoscale Quantum Networking
5.1 INTRODUCTION
5.1.1 The nature of quantum networks
5.1.2 Forms of quantum networking
5.2 PRIMER ON QUANTUM COMPUTATION
5.2.1 What is quantum mechanics?
5.2.2 The nature of qubits
5.2.3 Postulate one
5.2.4 Postulate two
5.2.5 Measuring a qubit
5.2.6 Postulate three
5.2.7 Postulate four
5.2.8 The tensor product
5.3 QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
5.3.1 Superdense coding
5.3.2 Measurement of composite quantum states
5.3.3 The Bell inequality
5.3.4 Quantum cryptography example
5.4 TELEPORTATION
5.4.1 The spectral theorem
5.4.2 An alternative form of postulate two
5.4.3 Building a quantum communication network
5.4.4 Sharing entanglement in a quantum network
5.4.5 Quantum wire
5.5 SUMMARY
5.6 EXERCISES
Chapter 6 Information Theory and Nanonetworks
6.1 INFORMATION THEORY PRIMER
6.1.1 Compression and the nature of information
6.1.2 Basic properties of entropy
6.1.3 Reliable communication in the presence of noise
6.1.4 Shannon versus Kolmogorov: Algorithmic information theory
6.1.5 Minimum description length and sophistication
6.2 QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY
6.2.1 Quantum information
6.2.2 The limits of accessible information in a network
6.3 A FEW WORDS ON SELF-ASSEMBLY AND SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS
6.3.1 Random nanotube networks, carbon nanotube radios, and information theory
6.4 MOLECULAR COMMUNICATION THEORY
6.4.1 Brownian motion and order statistics
6.4.2 Concentration encoding
6.4.3 A single nanoscale molecular channel
6.4.4 A multiple-access nanoscale molecular channel
6.4.5 A broadcast nanoscale molecular channel
6.4.6 A relay nanoscale molecular channel
6.5 SUMMARY
6.6 EXERCISES
Chapter 7 Architectural Questions
7.1 INTRODUCTION
7.1.1 The definition of an architecture
7.2 ARCHITECTURAL PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM A FINITE AUTOMATA MODEL
7.3 APPLYING LESSONS FROM OUTER SPACE TO INNER SPACE
7.3.1 Routing with Brownian motion
7.3.2 Localization in outer space
7.3.3 Localization in inner space
7.4 ARCHITECTURE OF EXTANT IN VIVO WIRELESS SYSTEMS
7.5 ACTIVE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
7.5.1 The active network framework
7.5.2 Properties of execution environments
7.5.3 Active networks and self-healing
7.5.4 Complexity and evolutionary control
7.5.5 The application of a complexity measure in a communication network
7.5.6 Genetic network programming architecture
7.6 CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORK ARCHITECTURES
7.6.1 Random carbon nanotube network architecture
7.6.2 Single carbon nanotube radio architecture
7.7 THE QUANTUM NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
7.7.1 Quantum entanglement purification
7.7.2 Quantum network architecture
7.8 SUMMARY
7.9 EXERCISES
Chapter 8 Conclusion
8.1 OLFACTORY COMMUNICATION
8.1.1 Towards odor communication
8.1.2 The odor receiver: The electronic nose
8.1.3 Pheromone impulse response
8.1.4 Towards an olfactory transmitter
8.2 AN INTERNET OF NANOSCALE NETWORKS
8.3 OPTICAL TRANSMISSION WITHIN NANOSCALE NETWORKS
8.3.1 Fluorescence resonance energy transfer
8.3.2 Electroluminescence
8.3.3 Molecular switches
8.4 INTERNETWORKING NANOSCALE NETWORKS
8.4.1 The design of an in vivo nanoscale network
8.5 NANOSCALE NETWORK APPLICATIONS
8.6 THE FUTURE OF NANONETWORKS
8.6.1 The IEEE Nano-Scale, Molecular, and Quantum Networking Subcommittee
8.7 EXERCISES
Appendix: Nanoscale and Molecular Communication Network Simulation Tools
MOLECULAR NETWORK SIMULATOR
NETWORK-ON-CHIP SIMULATIONS
CARBON NANOTUBE SIMULATION TOOLS
BIOCHEMICAL SIMULATORS
QUANTUM SIMULATION FOR NANOSCALE AND MOLECULAR NETWORKS
SELF-ASSEMBLY SIMULATORS
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