Channel Modeling and Capacity Analysis for Nanoscale Communications and Networking

The innovation process triggered by nanotechnology is rapidly concretizing the idea to deploy network architectures at the nanoscale, made up by integrated devices, with size ranging from one to a few hundreds of nanometers. These devices are able to interact with each other by using novel communication mechanisms, thus enabling new pioneering applications in information communications technology (ICT), biomedical, industrial, and military domains [1]. Accordingly, the time is ready to conceive innovative networking methodologies, protocols, and algorithms, which properly embrace the main facets of nanoscale communication systems, while fulfilling the requirements of enabled applications. However, at this embryonic stage of the research, any activity focusing on nanoscale networking should ground its roots to solid studies that carefully describe how the information is really exchanged between transmitter and receiver at the nanoscale. In this context, channel modeling and capacity analysis become key aspects to investigate, before deeply proceeding in this direction of research.