Efficient simulation of macroscopic molecular communication: the pogona simulator

Abstract

Molecular communication in pipe networks is a novel technique for wireless data exchange. Simulating such networks accurately is difficult because of the complexity of fluid dynamics at centimeter scales, which existing molecular communication simulators do not model. The new simulator we present combines computational fluid dynamics simulation and particle movement predictions. It is optimized to be computationally efficient while offering a high degree of adaptability to complex fluid flows in larger pipe networks. We validate it by comparing the simulation with experimental results obtained in a real-world testbed.