Experimental Results on the Open-Air Transmission of Macro-Molecular Communication Using Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry

摘要

Molecular communication (MC) is a method where the transmission of information involves the use of molecules rather than electromagnetic waves. In this letter, an open-air transmission MC experiment is conducted to study the signal behavior and the noise. A mass spectrometer is used as the detector, and an in-house-built odor generator is used as the transmitter. It is shown that the signal amplitude loss of the signal can be modeled by using advection–diffusion with decay equation. In addition, the noise of the system has shown to have similar characteristics to that of additive white Gaussian noise.