Chemotaxis-based Multi-hop Molecular Nanonetworks for Target Detection

Abstract

In chemotaxis-based multi-hop molecular nanonet-works for target detection, nanomachines move toward a target with the help of relay nodes. In this paper, we develop a generalized multi-hop molecular nanonetwork model and investigate the effect of adding relay nodes on target detection performance. We first use mathematical models to describe the behavior of nanomachines and relay nodes. We then conduct simulation experiments to understand the target detection performance of multi-hop molecular nanonetworks.