Impact of Mobility on Air-Based Macroscopic Molecular Communication: A Simulation Study

Abstract

Molecular communication (MC) is considered to become a very relevant communication technology for many industrial and health care applications. Here, we study the impact of mobility on the channel impulse response. Building upon previous work on simulation and experimental insights on air-based MC, we investigate a mobility scenario in which the sender moves with respect to the receiver of the signal. Our findings show the impact of the mobility on the amplitude as well as the width of the received signal. We consider our results as a first step towards general mobility-impact mitigating waveform and protocol designs for MC.