title: Packet Fragmentation and Reassembly in Molecular Communication.
abstract: This paper describes packet fragmentation and reassembly to achieve reliable molecular communication among bionanomachines. In the molecular communication described in this paper, a sender bionanomachine performs packet fragmentation, dividing a large molecular message into smaller pieces and embedding into smaller molecular packets, so that molecular packets have higher diffusivity to reach the receiver bionanomachine. The receiver bionanomachine then performs packet reassembly to retrieve the original molecular message from a set of molecular packets that it receives. To examine the effect of packet fragmentation and reassembly, we develop analytical models and conduct numerical experiments. Numerical results show that packet fragmentation and reassembly can improve the message delivery performance. Numerical results also indicate that packet fragmentation and reassembly may degrade the performance in the presence of drift in the environment.
authors.forename: Taro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Furubayashi
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eckford
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okaie
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yomo
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D003142:Communication; D039301:Computers, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004247:DNA