Track Chair: Miaowen Wen, PhD, Professor, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Email: eemwwen@scut.edu.cn
Track Co-Chair:Xin-Wei Yao, PhD, Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.
Email: xwyao@zjut.edu.cn
Track Co-Chair: Yu Huang, PhD, Associate Professor, Research Center of Intelligent Communication Engineering, School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Email: yuhuang@gzhu.edu.cn
Abstract
The emerging
communication paradigm that works in the nano/micro-scale has
been revealed due to the rapid development of nanotechnology and
its interdisciplinary research. So far, the molecular
communication that uses chemical signals as information
carriers, and the wireless communication that operates in the
Terahertz frequency band are both deemed as the candidates to
realize the aforementioned communication scenarios. Against this
background, the end-to-end communication is initially realized,
which paves the way for the nano network that forms the Internet
of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT).
The IoBNT enables the revolutionary applications such as target
drug delivery by the deployment of nanomachine, which can reach
the focus on infection and then release the precise dose,
remarkably reducing the side effect compared to the traditional
medicine. Despite the advantages of both communication
paradigms, many fundamental research problems related to them
remain unsolved. In light of this, the track aims at receiving
original research articles that are solicited in, but not
limited to, the Terahertz, molecular, biological, or multi-scale
communication.
Content:
The development
of nanotechnology and its interdisciplinary research enable the
emerging communication system operating at the nano/micro-scale,
which may further bring the revolutionary applications beyond
our imagination, especially in the healthcare industry. The
study of how information is represented and propagates in the
microscopic scale, joined by advances in communication
engineering, nanomaterial engineering, synthetic biology, and
lab-on-a-chip, to name a few, is inspiring the design of new
communication systems that operate in these domains.
In particular, tools are being developed to engineer biochemical
circuits, synthetic cells, swarms of devices, and many other
systems at “small” length scales, i.e., nanoscale to microscale,
which interact and affect with systems at these and larger
scales. Utilizing these tools to engineer or re-engineer
communications for such systems could facilitate a wave of
revolutionary and interdisciplinary applications in fields from
manufacturing and sensing to precision and personalized
medicine. This track is devoted to the principles, design,
analysis, implementation, and control of signaling and
information systems that rely on substrates beyond conventional
telecommunications, particularly based on (or crossing domains
with) biological processes, chemical processes, and physics at
the sub-micro scale, with consequent peculiar characteristics or
features.
Hereafter, the topic of interest includes molecular
communication (through/with natural or man-made systems),
unconventional electromagnetic communications (e.g., terahertz),
cross-domain communications (e.g., electrochemistry, ionic
currents, etc.), novel signaling techniques to revolutionize
communication at these scales, and applications of communication
and information theory to the analysis of biological/biochemical
and nanoscale systems. In recognition of the interdisciplinary
nature of this track, contributions from a diversity of
disciplines are strongly encouraged.
Topics
We seek original completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
8Active or passive transport molecular communication (e.g., diffusion, flow, microfluidic, motor-assisted)
8Biological data storage and computing (e.g., DNA, ions)
8Biochemical or biophysical signaling and computing
8Communication between and within natural and/or synthetic organisms
8Intra-body communication systems using neurons, cardiac cells, and other body cell types
8Internet of BioNano Things and Biocyber interfaces
8Mobile Terahertz and molecular communications
8Modulation schemes for Terahertz and molecular communications
8Signal detection methods for Terahertz and molecular communications
8Synthetic or systems biology
8Terahertz communication at the multi-scale scenarios
8Testbed/Prototype design in emerging