title: Collision bottleneck throughput in bacterial conjugation-based nanonetworks.
abstract: Bacterial conjugation-based nanonetwork has been recently proposed as a novel molecular communication paradigm, in which the bacteria act as carriers. This is the foundational work proposing the phenomenon of collision which occurs in the form of multi-conjugation of multiple carrier bacteria at the side of receiver nanodevice. We show the effect of this conjugation-based collision on the maximum achievable throughput of the network, using a simple graph-theoretic approach, namely, Maximum Weight Bipartite Matching. One of the several interesting results that emerges concerns the maximum achievable throughput, which is bounded by Θ(n/p) in case of homogeneous nodes, where n and p refer to the total number of nodes, and the vertical layers in the network, respectively.
authors.forename: Nabiul
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: Sudip
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Misra
mesh_terms: D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D008954:Models, Biological; D036103:Nanotechnology; D010957:Plasmids