Abstract:
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Nanotechnology is a cutting edge investigation area that has come out with new and
unlimited applications. The recent explosion of research in this field, combined
with important discoveries in molecular biology have created a new interest in
bio-nanorobotic communication. This thesis provides a general theoretical understanding
of nanonetworks and their multiple possibilities. It describes some basic
concepts of architectures that compose nanotechnology topologies, as well as possible
designs for the tiny nanonetwork components, the nanomachines. The thesis
also reviews some promising methods proposed for communicating and coordinating
in these nanonetworks. Molecular communication applied to nanonetworks
presents indeed extremely appealing features in terms of energy consumption, reliability
and robustness. Nevertheless, it remains to understand the impact of the
extremely slow propagation of molecules and the highly variable environments. As
a totally unexplored research area, it is important to establish thorough theoretical
framework so that the applications and possible solutions can be validated. It is
clear that many issues still need to be addressed in order to understand the limiting
performance of information communications among nano-scale devices and design
optimal and quasi-optimal encoding/decoding strategies. Such issues are believed
to be of key relevance for allowing nanotechnologies display their full potential. |