Nanoscale Networking and Communications Handbook

Description

This comprehensive handbook serves as a professional reference as well as a practitioner’s guide to today’s most complete and concise view of nanoscale networking and communications. It offers in-depth coverage of theory, technology, and practice as they relate to established technologies and recent advancements. It explores practical solutions to a wide range of nanoscale networking and communications issues. Individual chapters, authored by leading experts in the field, address the immediate and long-term challenges in the authors’ respective areas of expertise.   Key Features   Identifies the main differences between nanonetworks and classical wireless networks and explains how to leverage those to develop new communication techniques for nanonetworks Presents the different alternatives for network communication among nanomachines, whether these are nanomaterial-based devices or genetically modified cells Provides a framework that will stimulate vision for a family of technologies in nanonetworking communications and multi-scale integration Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Editor Contributors SECTION I: Introduction CHAPTER 1: Graphene-Enabled Wireless Nanoscale Networking Communications in the Terahertz Band CHAPTER 2: Graphene-Based Antenna Design for Communications in the Terahertz Band CHAPTER 3: Terahertz Programmable Metasurfaces: Networks Inside Networks SECTION II: Nanoscale, Molecular Networking Communications CHAPTER 4: Channel Modeling for Nanoscale Communications and Networking CHAPTER 5: Channel Modeling and Capacity Analysis for Nanoscale Communications and Networking CHAPTER 6: Nanoscale Channel Modeling in Highly Integrated Computing Packages CHAPTER 7: Synchronization for Molecular Communications and Nanonetworking CHAPTER 8: Multiple Access Control Strategies for Nanoscale Communications and Networking CHAPTER 9: Media Access Control for Nanoscale Communications and Networking CHAPTER 10: Signal Processing for Nanoscale Communication and Networking SECTION III: Molecular Nanoscale Communication and Networking of Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies CHAPTER 11: Communication Between Living and Nonliving Systems CHAPTER 12: Molecular Communication and Cellular Signaling from an Information-Theory Perspective CHAPTER 13: Design and Applications of Optical Near-Field Antenna Networks for Nanoscale Biomolecular Information CHAPTER 14: Basis of Pharmaceutical Formulation CHAPTER 15: Droplet-Based Microfluidics: Communications and Networking SECTION IV: Advances in Nanoscale Networking-Communications Research and Development CHAPTER 16: Nanostructure-Enabled High-Performance Silicon-Based Photodiodes for Future Data-Communication Networks CHAPTER 17: Nanoscale Materials and Devices for Future Communication Networks CHAPTER 18: Microwave-Absorbing Properties of Single- and Multilayer Materials: Microwave-Heating Mechanism and Theory of Material–Microwave Interaction CHAPTER 19: Dynamic Mechanical and Fibrillation Behaviors of Nanofibers of LCP/PET Blended Droplets by Repeated Extrusion CHAPTER 20: Nanoscale Wireless Communications as Enablers of Massive Manycore Architectures SECTION V: Appendices APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C APPENDIX D INDEX