Publications

A list of recent publications by lab members. Green links are open access, red links require subscription. An asterisk * means the version is not authoritative (e.g., preprint version).

For publications prior to 2011, see: Older Publications

Journal Papers

Preprint

• P. Thomas and A. W. Eckford, “Capacity of a simple intercellular signal transduction channel,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. arXiv*
• W. Guo, T. Asyhari, N. Farsad, H. B. Yilmaz, B. Li, A. W. Eckford, C.-B. Chae, “Molecular communications: Channel model and physical layer techniques,” accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. arXiv*
• S. A. Banani, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “Analyzing dependent placements of small cells in a two-layer heterogeneous network with a rate coverage constraint,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

2016

• N. Farsad, H. B. Yilmaz, A. W. Eckford, C.-B. Chae, and W. Guo, “A comprehensive survey of recent advancements in molecular communication,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1887-1919, third quarter 2016. IEEEXplore open access
• T. Furubayashi, T. Nakano, A. W. Eckford, Y. Okaie, and T. Yomo, “Packet fragmentation and reassembly in molecular communication,” IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 284-288, Apr. 2016. IEEEXplore
• B. Koo, C. Lee, H. B. Yilmaz, N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, and C.-B. Chae, “Molecular MIMO: From theory to prototype,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 3, Mar. 2016. IEEEXplore open access

2015

• S. A. Banani, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “Analyzing the impact of access point density on the performance of finite-area networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 5143-5161, Dec. 2015. arXiv* IEEEXplore
• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, and S. Hiyama, “Design and optimizing of on-chip kinesin substrates for molecular communication,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 699-708, Jul. 2015. arXiv* IEEEXplore
• S. F. Bush, J. L. Paluh, G. Piro, V. Rao, V. Prasad, and A. W. Eckford, “Defining communication at the bottom,” IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 90-96, Mar. 2015. IEEEXplore

2014

• N. Farsad, N.-R. Kim, A. W. Eckford, and C.-B. Chae, “Channel and noise models for nonlinear molecular communication systems,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 2392-2401, Dec. 2014. arXiv* IEEEXplore
• N.-R. Kim, A. W. Eckford, and C.-B. Chae, “Symbol interval optimization for molecular communication with drift,” IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 223-229, Sep. 2014. arXiv* IEEEXplore
• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, and S. Hiyama, “A Markov chain channel model for active transport molecular communication,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 9, pp. 2424-2436, May 2014. IEEEXplore

2013

• N. Farsad, W. Guo, and A. W. Eckford, “Table-top molecular communication: Text messages through chemical signals,” PLOS ONE, vol. 8, no. 12, 13 pp., Dec. 2013. PLOS One
• W. Guo, S. Wang, A. W. Eckford, and J. Wu, “Reliable communication envelopes of molecular diffusion channels,” Electronics Letters, vol. 49, no. 19, pp. 1248—1249, 12 Sep. 2013. IEEEXplore

2012

• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, S. Hiyama, and Y. Moritani, “On-chip molecular communication: Analysis and design,” IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 304—314, Sep. 2012.
• K. V. Srinivas, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “Molecular communication in fluid media: The additive inverse Gaussian noise channel,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 4678—4692, Jul. 2012.
• S. Kadloor, R. S. Adve, and A. W. Eckford, “Molecular communication using Brownian motion with drift,” IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 89—99, Jun. 2012.
• N. Farsad and A. W. Eckford, “Resource allocation via linear programming for fractional cooperation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1633—1637, May 2012.

2011

• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, S. Hiyama, and Y. Moritani, “Quick system design of vesicle-based active transport molecular communication by using a simple transport model,” Nano Communication Networks, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 175—188, 2011.

For publications prior to 2011, see: Older Publications

Conference Papers

2016

• A. W. Eckford, T. Furubayashi, and T. Nakano, “RNA as a nanoscale data transmission medium: Error analysis,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Sendai, Japan, 2016.
• N. Farsad, Y. Murin, A. W. Eckford, and A. Goldsmith, “On the capacity of diffusion-based molecular timing channels,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain, 2016. arXiv*
• P. J. Thomas and A. W. Eckford, “Shannon capacity of signal transduction for multiple independent receptors,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain, 2016. arXiv*
• A. W. Eckford, K. Loparo, and P. Thomas, “Finite-state channel models for signal transduction in neural systems,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016. (Invited paper.) IEEEXplore

2015

• T. Furubayashi, T. Nakano, A. W. Eckford, and T. Yomo, “Reliable End-to-end Molecular Communication with Packet Replication and Retransmission,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, USA, 2015.
• N. Farsad, W. Guo, C.-B. Chae, and A. W. Eckford, “Stable distributions as noise models for molecular communication,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, USA, 2015.
• S. A. Banani, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “A perturbed hexagonal lattice to model basestation locations in real-world cellular networks,” in Proc. IEEE GC 2015 Workshop on 5G Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks (HetSNets), San Diego, CA, USA, 2015.
• A. W. Eckford and P. Thomas, “Information theory of intercellular signal transduction,” in Proc. 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2015. (Invited paper.)
• S. Qiu, N. Farsad, Y. Y. Dong, A. W. Eckford, and W. Guo, “Under-water molecular signaling: A hidden transmitter and absent receivers problem,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, 2015.
• B. Koo, H. B. Yilmaz, C.-B. Chae, and A. W. Eckford, “Detection algorithms for molecular MIMO,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, 2015.
• N.-R. Kim, N. Farsad, C.-B. Chae, and A. W. Eckford, “A universal channel model for molecular communication systems with metal-oxide detectors,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, 2015.
• L. Wang, N. Farsad, W. Guo, S. Magierowski, and A. W. Eckford, “Molecular barcodes: Information transmission via persistent chemical tags,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, 2015.
• C. Lee, B. Koo, N.-R. Kim, B. Yilmaz, N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, and C.-B. Chae, “Molecular MIMO communication link” (demonstration paper), in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, pp. 14-15, 2015.

2014

• S. A. Banani, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “The penalty for random deployment in hexagonal lattice networks with perturbed interferers,” in Proc. IEEE 6th Int. Workshop on Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks (HetSNets), Austin, TX, 2014.
• A. W. Eckford and C.-B. Chae, “Scaling laws for molecular communication,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, HI, 5 pp., 2014.
• N.-R. Kim, N. Farsad, C.-B. Chae, and A. W. Eckford, “A realistic channel model for molecular communication with imperfect receivers,” in Proc. IEEE international Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, pp. 3987-3992, 2014.
• N. Farsad, W. Guo, and A. W. Eckford, “Molecular communications link” (demonstration paper), in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, ON, pp. 107-108, 2014.
• S. A. Banani, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “Required number of small cells in heterogeneous networks with non-uniform traffic distribution,” in Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, 6 pp., 2014.

2013

• A. W. Eckford and P. J. Thomas, “Capacity of a simple intercellular signal transduction channel,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, 5 pp., 2013.
• X. Yan, W. Gage, and A. W. Eckford, “Integrating prior knowledge in time series alignment: Prior optimized time warping,” in Proc. 13th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Toronto, ON, 4 pp., 2013.

2012

• K. V. Srinivas, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “Fractional cooperation in femtocell networks,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Anaheim, CA, 6 pp., 2012.
• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, and S. Hiyama, “Modeling and design of polygon-shaped Kinesin substrates for molecular communication,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Birmingham, UK, 5 pp., 2012.
• A. W. Eckford, K. V. Srinivas, and R. S. Adve, “The peak constrained additive inverse Gaussian noise channel,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Boston, MA, 5 pp., 2012.
• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, and S. Hiyama, “A mathematical channel optimization formula for active transport molecular communication,” in Proc. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nanoscale Communications, Ottawa, ON, 5 pp., 2012.

2011

• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, and S. Hiyama, “Channel design and optimization of active transport molecular communication,” in Proc. International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, York, UK, 12 pp., 2011.
• A. Calce, N. Farsad, and A. W. Eckford, “An experimental study of fractional cooperation in wireless mesh networks,” in Proc. 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Toronto, ON, 5 pp., 2011.
• L. Cui and A. W. Eckford, “The delay selector channel: Definition and capacity bounds,” in Proc. 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Kelowna, BC, 4 pp., 2011.
• J. P. K. Chu, A. W. Eckford, and R. S. Adve, “Distributed optimization of the Bhattacharyya parameter in wireless relay networks,” in Proc. 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Kelowna, BC, 6 pp., 2011.
• N. Farsad, A. W. Eckford, S. Hiyama, and Y. Moritani, “A simple mathematical model for information rate of active transport molecular communication,” in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano-scale Communications, Shanghai, China, 6 pp., 2011.
• K. V. Srinivas, R. S. Adve, A. W. Eckford, and Y. Lostanlen, “Towards fractional cooperation in femtocells,” in Proc. CWiND 3rd International Workshop on Femtocells, Luton, UK, 3 pp., 2011.

For publications prior to 2011, see: Older Publications

Other

2016

• A. W. Eckford and P. J. Thomas, "Entropy of the sum of two independent, non-identically-distributed exponential random variables," arXiv:1609.02911. arXiv