Sagar Saxena, Deekshith Shenoy Manur, Md Shahriar Shamim, A. Ganguly
{"title":"A folded wireless network-on-chip using graphene based THz-band antennas","authors":"Sagar Saxena, Deekshith Shenoy Manur, Md Shahriar Shamim, A. Ganguly","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3109455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3109455","url":null,"abstract":"1 Long distance data communication over multi-hop wireline paths in conventional Network-on-Chips (NoCs) cause high-energy consumption and degradation in performance. Many emerging interconnect technologies such as 3D integration, photonic, Radio Frequency (RF), and wireless interconnects have been envisioned to alleviate the issues of a metal/dielectric interconnect system. To satisfy the increasing demand for high speed and low power interconnects, THz Wireless NoC (WiNoC) enabled with high-speed direct links between distant cores is desired. In this paper, we present an innovative approach to enable a THz WiNoC with low power wireless devices operating in the THz bands such as graphene based antennas. The novelty of this work is that we propose a torus like folding by using THz band links instead of global wires. With cycle accurate system-level simulations, we demonstrate that they are able to provide significant gains in performance and energy-efficiency in on-chip data transfer in NoC based multicore chips.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130676501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Tsioliaridou, C. Liaskos, A. Pitsillides, S. Ioannidis
{"title":"A novel protocol for network-controlled metasurfaces","authors":"A. Tsioliaridou, C. Liaskos, A. Pitsillides, S. Ioannidis","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3109469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3109469","url":null,"abstract":"A recently proposed class of materials, called software-defined metamaterials, can change their electromagnetic behavior on demand, utilizing a nanonetwork embedded in their structure. The present work focuses on 2D metamaterials, known as metasurfaces, and their electromagnetically programmable counterparts, the HyperSurfaces. The particular focus of the study is to propose a nanonetworking protocol that can support the intended macroscopic functionality of a Hyper-Surface, such as sensing and reacting to impinging waves in a customizable manner. The novel protocol is derived analytically, using the Lyapunov drift minimization approach, taking into account nano-node energy, communication latency and complexity concerns. The proposed scheme is evaluated via simulations, covering both the macroscopic HyperSurface functionality and the microscopic, nanonetwork behavior.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126727472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemical reaction networks for maximum likelihood estimation of the concentration of signalling molecules","authors":"C. Chou","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3109476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3109476","url":null,"abstract":"The use of maximum likelihood (ML) to estimate molecule concentration has been investigated theoretically. The key contribution of this paper is to show how the theoretical ML estimator can be implemented as a chemical reaction network (CRN). The proposed CRN can be implemented by DNA strand displacement reactions and therefore leads to a biochemical implementation of the theoretical ML estimator.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128257672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine D. Schuman, J. Plank, G. Rose, Gangotree Chakma, A. Wyer, Grant Bruer, N. Laanait
{"title":"A programming framework for neuromorphic systems with emerging technologies","authors":"Catherine D. Schuman, J. Plank, G. Rose, Gangotree Chakma, A. Wyer, Grant Bruer, N. Laanait","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3123958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3123958","url":null,"abstract":"Neuromorphic computing is a promising post-Moore's law era technology. A wide variety of neuromorphic computer (NC) architectures have emerged in recent years, ranging from traditional fully digital CMOS to nanoscale implementations with novel, beyond CMOS components. There are already major questions associated with how we are going to program and use NCs simply because of how radically different their architecture is as compared with the von Neumann architecture. When coupled with the implementations using emerging device technologies, which add additional issues associated with programming devices, it is clear that we must define a new way to program and develop for NC devices. In this work, we discuss a programming framework for NC devices implemented with emerging technologies. We discuss how we have applied this framework to program a NC system implemented with metal oxide memristors. We utilize the framework to develop two applications for the memristive NC device: a simple multiplexer and a simple control task (the cart-pole problem). Finally, we discuss how this framework can be extended to NC systems implemented with a variety of novel device components and materials.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129892340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
U. Chude-Okonkwo, A. V. Vasiliakos, R. Malekian, B. T. Maharaj
{"title":"Simulation analysis of inter-symbol interference in diffusion-based molecular communication with non-absorbing receiver","authors":"U. Chude-Okonkwo, A. V. Vasiliakos, R. Malekian, B. T. Maharaj","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3109459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3109459","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analysis of inter-symbol interference (ISI) in a typical diffusion-based molecular communication system for a non-absorbing molecular receiver with no consideration to any artificially applied ISI mitigation technique. We employ stochastic simulation approach to analyze the influence of varied number of transmitted molecules, and molecules' degradation rates.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134190588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stochastic analysis of multi-tier nanonetworks in THz band","authors":"J. Kokkoniemi, Janne J. Lehtomäki, M. Juntti","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3109472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3109472","url":null,"abstract":"Future nanonetworks are formed by large numbers of autonomous, nano-sized sensors. These are often envisioned to be paired with one or more layers of higher complexity devices, providing access to the external networks. The number of devices sharing the same frequency resources can theoretically be very high, up to several hundreds per square meter. This causes the overall interference of the network to increase with the complexity of the network. In this work, stochastic geometry is utilized to derive the moments of the summed interference in the case of multi-tier nanonetworks in the terahertz frequency band (0.1--10 THz). All the devices in all the tiers of the network are assumed to be Poisson distributed. Based on this assumption, models for the moments of interference are derived and they are shown by computer simulations to predict the mean interference and its higher moments exactly.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133800094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brain-inspired computing accelerated by memristor technology","authors":"Chenchen Liu, Fuqiang Liu, Hai Li","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3123960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3123960","url":null,"abstract":"The brain-inspired computing, known as neuromorphic computing has demonstrated great potential in revolutionizing computation for high efficiency. In the neuromorphic engine, tremendous computing and power efficiency are achieved on a single chip. However, the development progress is slow in the neuromorphic designs based on conventional nanotechnologies. The occurrence and utilization of memristor technology pushed the development of neuromorphic computing forward into a new era. Matrix-vector multiplication, which is the basic computation in the neural network can be implemented by the memristor crossbar naturally and efficiently. Recently, various neuromorphic systems have been widely developed for cognition and perception applications. In this work, the development status is reviewed from the aspects of device, circuit, system, and algorithm. The challenges and futures are studied.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115424111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sohil Shah, Ashwin Raghavachari, Chieh Lo, R. Marculescu
{"title":"Molecular communication with DNA cellular storage system","authors":"Sohil Shah, Ashwin Raghavachari, Chieh Lo, R. Marculescu","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3109467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3109467","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we construct a DNA Cellular Storage System (DCSS) that allows rewritable and reliable DNA storage and retrieval. To demonstrate the applicability of our proposed DCSS, we embed it into a molecular communication system and propose a new signal modulation scheme called DNA-molecule shift keying (DNA-MoSK). In our proposed modulation scheme, DNA sequences are used to encode data in molecules, providing higher scalability than other existing modulation schemes, such as concentration shift keying (CSK), molecule shift keying (MoSK), and depleted-molecule shift keying (D-MoSK). Through numerical analyses, we show that the performance of DNA-MoSK is comparable to the performance of D-MoSK which, in turn, performs better than both MoSK and CSK, in terms of the achievable rate (AR) and the symbol error rate (SER). Overall, DNA-MoSK is capable of achieving high channel capacity values, suggesting it as a better modulation technique for high scalability.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114597774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Achieving in-phase synchronization in a diffusion-based nanonetwork with unknown propagation delay","authors":"Ethungshan Shitiri, Ho-Shin Cho","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3109471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3109471","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the feasibility of achieving in-phase synchronization in a diffusion-based nanonetwork using a two-way message exchange is studied and investigated. Nanomachines are equipped with biochemical oscillators that provide and maintain timing information. Overtime, the oscillators tend to have clock offsets which results in desynchronization. The proposed two-way message exchange synchronization scheme aims to mitigate these clock offsets, but without the explicit use of time-stamps. Instead, the intrinsic characteristic of the biochemical oscillator to be able to modify its oscillations in response to a chemical signal is taken into account. This allows the clock offsets of the oscillator to converge and achieve in-phase synchronization. Computer simulations are performed to analyze the accuracy and the synchronization error. Further investigations were carried out to study the effect of propagation delay on the performance of the proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"351 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123203512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analog and digital memory in living cells","authors":"Fahim Farzadfard, T. Lu","doi":"10.1145/3109453.3124361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3109453.3124361","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to dynamically manipulate information stored in a genome, in a targeted, controlled and recurring manner, confers the great potential to study and engineer living cells. Here, we review some of the recent advances in the development of DNA writers, i.e., molecular devices that enable targeted editing of DNA of living cells, and discuss some of the potential uses of these devices in studying and programming cellular phenotypes.","PeriodicalId":400141,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124707084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}