ACM Comm 2011 11 Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications (Notes)
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Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications
"Technology able to create devices the size of a human cell calls for new protocols."
Problems in scaling up Mutant OS from independent machines with the simplest functions into a distributed OS.
People
- Richard Feynman, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
- K. Eric Drexler, Exploring nanotechnology in depth.
Ideas
- Nanomachines, that is, integrated functional devices consisting of nanoscale components and which are able to perform simple tasks at the nano-level.
- Nanonetworks Nanomachines, different in type and numbers, combine to accomplish tasks no one machine can. Then recombine to accomplish a different task.
- Biomedical Applications
- Industrial and Consumer Goods Applications
- Environmental Applications
- Military Applications
- Nanocommunications
- Electromagnetic Communications in the Terahertz Band - Pulses with wide bandwidth and short range.
- Molecular Communications Message in a bottle.
- Directed bacteria carrying a message in DNA. Slow speed but large payload. Similar to the SS Great Eastern[1] on its intended UK to Australia service.
- It seems unfeasible to assign a unique ID to every component of a nanonetwork.
- Molecular nanonetworks.
- Biologically inspired molecular networks.
- Synthesized molecular nanonetworks.
- Noisy environments
- propagation delay
- Attenuation
- Message Delay
- Flagellated bacterial communication
References
- K. Eric Drexler, E. Molecular engineering: Assemblers and future space hardware. American Astronautical Society, 1986.
- Nano-Radio, Jensen, K., Weldon, J., Garcia, H. and Zettl, A. Nanotube radio. Nano Letters 7, 11 (Nov. 2007), 3508−3511.
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