Diffusion Based Molecular Communication with Limited Molecule Production Rate

This paper studies the impact of a transmitter’s molecule generation process on the capacity of a concentration based Molecular Communication (MC) system. Constraints caused by the molecule generation process affect the availability of the molecules at the transmitter. The transmitter has a storage of molecules, and should decide whether to release or save the currently produced molecules. As a result, the MC system has conceptual connections with energy harvesting systems. In this paper, we consider two scenarios on the propagation channel. The first scenario assumes a channel with no Inter-symbol Interference (ISI), i.e., a memoryless channel. We derive bounds on the capacity of the MC system in this scenario. The second scenario assumes the MC network with ISI, in which the output of the channel depends on the history of released molecules in the pervious time-slots. Based on the assumptions that either the transmitter or the receiver knows the channel statistics, we compute a lower bound on the channel capacity.