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Bacterial communication systems: A mathematical formulation of negative chemotaxis
Author(s) -
Kantelis Konstantinos,
Papadimitriou Georgios
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.3365
Subject(s) - computer science , chemotaxis , molecular communication , communications system , simple (philosophy) , distributed computing , range (aeronautics) , biological system , transformation (genetics) , biochemical engineering , telecommunications , biology , materials science , channel (broadcasting) , biochemistry , transmitter , receptor , philosophy , epistemology , gene , engineering , composite material
Summary The emergence of molecular communication (MC) has provided a new paradigm for communication at nanoscale, besides the electromagnetic one. Numerous biological systems have been proposed that could be used for communication, using mostly bacteria as information carriers, ensuring biocompatibility and low complexity requirements. In this work, message dissemination dynamics in a bacterial communication system was under investigation by means of a simulation framework that was designed and developed based on a commercial tool. A mathematical formulation is proposed, in an effort to accurately predict the system's behavior under the presence of chemotactic‐like nodes. Simulation results are in strong agreement with the respective mathematical model, for a wide range of biological processes, including phenomena such as chemotaxis, bacterial growth cycle, and biological message transformation dynamics. In the case of a simple simulation scenario exhibiting chemotaxis, the mean accuracy improvement reaches values of up to 19 % .