A Design Process for Molecular Communication Systems Based on Biological Circuits in Cells

While theoretical studies on communication systems based on the exchange of molecules, i.e., Molecular Communication (MC), are opening up a novel domain of applications for the telecom and networking fields, practical technologies to implement these systems are currently understudied. In particular, the engineering of biological cells and their behavior through synthetic biology is a very promising avenue for MC research, where the MC capabilities of cells could be harnessed and manipulated to realize the aforementioned systems. This technical abstract explores this research direction through the definition of a design process derived from recent work on the characterization of MC systems with a single transmitter cell and receiver cell, and their enhancement through digital channel coding techniques realized with biological circuits.