N3Sim: A Simulation Framework for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication

N3Sim is a complete simulation framework for diffusion-based molecular communications, which allows the evaluation of the communication performance of molecular networks with several transmitters and receivers in an infinite space with a given concentration of molecules. Transmitters encode the information by releasing particles into the medium, thus varying the concentration rate in their vicinity. The diffusion of particles through the medium is modeled as Brownian motion, taking into account particle inertia and collisions among particles. Finally, receivers decode the information by sensing the local concentration in their neighborhood. The benefits of such a simulator are multiple: the validation of existing channel models for molecular communications and the evaluation of novel modulation schemes are just two examples.

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Publications

• Llatser, I., Alarcón, E., Pierobon, M., “Diffusion-based Channel Characterization in Molecular Nanonetworks”, in Proc. of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, April 2011.
  
  
• Garralda, N., Llatser, I., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., Pierobon, M., “Simulation-based Evaluation of the Diffusion-based Physical Channel in Molecular Nanonetworks”, in Proc. of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, April 2011.
  
  
• Llatser, I., Pascual, I., Garralda, N., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., Pierobon, M., Alarcón, E. and Solé-Pareta, J., "N3Sim: A Simulation Framework for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication," IEEE TC on Simulation, No. 8, pp. 3-4, March 2011.
  
  
• Llatser, I., Pascual, I., Garralda, N., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., Pierobon, M., Alarcón, E. and Solé-Pareta, J., “Exploring the Physical Channel of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication by Simulation”, submitted for publication, March 2011.
  
  

Aknowledgements

N3Sim has been developed by:

• Iñaki Pascual
• Nora Garralda
• Ignacio Llatser
• Albert Cabellos-Aparicio
• Eduard Alarcón
• Massimiliano Pierobon

For further information or support, please contact Ignacio Llatser.