IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking
11-13 June 2018 – Hong Kong

The MBMC Workshop

2018 International Workshop on Molecular, Biological and Multiscale Communications

June 11 (Monday)

9:00 – 9:05 Opening

Yifan Chen, Waikato University, New Zealand

Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan

9:05 – 9:45 Keynote

Information processing principles for cell signalling and molecular communications 

Chun Tung Chou

University of New South Wales, Australia

9:45 – 10:30

A New Simulation Algorithm for Absorbing Receiver in Molecular Communication

Yiran Wang (The Australian National University, Australia); Adam Noel (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia)

A Low-Complexity Distance Measurement Method for Molecular Communication Systems

Zhan Luo (Shanghai University, P.R. China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, P.R. China); Qi Fu (Shanghai University, P.R. China); Hao Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Multi-gateway Polling for Nanonetworks under Dynamic IoT Backhaul Bandwidth

Hang Yu, Bryan Ng and Winston K.G. Seah (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00

High-Efficiency Target Detection Scheme through in Chemotactic-based Molecular Communication

Liting Yang, Yuming Mao, Qiang Liu and HaoYang Zhai (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Impacts of SW-ARQ on the Latency and Reliability of Diffusive, In-sequence Molecular Communication

Kento Furuhashi (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA); Jonathan Mitzman and Junichi Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA); Tadashi Nakano and Yutaka Okaie (Osaka University, Japan); Hiroaki Fukuda (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan)

Molecular Communication as a Biological System

Tatsuya Suda (University Netgroup Inc., USA); Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan)

Communication-inspired Model of Epidemics

Yifan Chen (The University of Waikato, New Zealand); Yu Zhou (South University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Ross Murch (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R.); Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan)

12:00 – 13:00 Panel discussion