3-D Diffusive Molecular Communication With Two Fully-Absorbing Receivers: Hitting Probability and Performance Analysis

Abstract

Exact analytical channel models for molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) systems involving multiple fully absorbing receivers (FARs) in a three-dimensional (3-D) medium are hard to obtain due to the mathematical intractability of corresponding diffusion equations. Therefore, this work considers an MCvD system with two spherical FARs in a 3-D diffusion-limited medium and develop several insights using an approximate analytical expression for the hitting probability of information molecule (IM). Further, based on the hitting probability, a novel approximate closed-form analytical expression for the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is derived to analyze the detection performance at each FAR in the presence of other FAR. Finally, simulation results are presented to validate the analytical results using the particle-based and Monte-Carlo simulations and to yield important insights into the MCvD system performance with two FARs.