BNMPS: BIOMOLECULAR NANOMACHINE PROTOCOL STACK FOR HUMAN DISEASE DIAGNOSES: A NEW PARADIGM

Abstract

Nanotechnology have many potentials to be used in various research directions for humanity. It is being used in many applications and products nowadays. One of the important application directions for this emerging technology is biomedical science and human body diagnosis. Nanomachine technology is part of the field concerning about creating and maintaining Nanoscale machines capable of performing certain functionalities such as molecule counting [1], molecule shuttling [2] and molecule sensing [3]. Communication between Nanomachines adds more capabilities and allows cooperative and distributed functionalities and form the concept of NanoNetworks [4]. Today’s researchers are trying their best to deploy Nanomachines and NanoNetworks for real-time objectives such as medical purposes. Moreover, the same problem is faced in other fields such as battlefield networks, environmental monitoring, and automation fields. However, due to design issues of Nanomachines such as low computation capability, low processing power, limited storage, imperfect sensing, actuation, and limited networking capabilities, the work done in the field of Nanonetwork communication is inadequate. In this paper, we present a novel communication protocol stack model for Nanomachines and show how this model can be used in medical applications for human body diagnoses. Our model provides guidance regarding designing protocol stacks for Nanomachines.