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  • Doctoral Thesis
    Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on the Performance of Molecular Communications
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Taşçı, Aslı; Atakan, Barış; Taşçı, Aslı; Atakan, Barış; 03.05. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    This thesis analyzes molecular communication (MC) systems’ performance under electromagnetic fields. The aim of the thesis is to model and study molecular behavior under electromagnetic fields (EMF). The thesis starts with the theoretical explanation of classic electromagnetism. The directional and thermal changes are the main effects of EMF on particles. The directional effects of EMF are studied with regard to electromagnetic forces. The applied electromagnetic forces are presented for different types of particles. The effect of EMF on magnetically susceptible particles is analyzed in particular. Furthermore, molecular movement is analyzed by considering four fundamental forces on diffusing molecules under EMF. The energy transfer between EMF and particles is studied to understand the thermal effects of EMF. AnMCscheme that transmits information with magnetically susceptible molecules is studied in the second part of the thesis. The molecular type and the configuration of EMF are studied to understand the effect of EMF on the diffusion rate. The effects of magnetic field gradient (MFG) and concentration gradient magnetic force (CGMF) are analyzed to model the change in the diffusion rate and concentration of magnetically susceptible molecules. The last part of the thesis focuses on molecular dynamics under EMF. The effect of thermal changes on the molecular reaction rate and binding kinetics is modeled with reaction-diffusion systems. The specific reaction rate constant is analyzed to determine the effect of temperature change caused by the EMF. The movement of molecules is modeled by Langevin’s diffusion model. The probability distribution functions of the molecule’s velocity and displacement are studied to understand and model the molecular behavior under EMF. Moreover, the mean-squared displacement is employed to analyze the diffusion type under EMF.
  • Doctoral Thesis
    Modeling and Analysis of Molecular Signals in Multiscale Molecular Communication
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Atakan, Barış; Güleç, Fatih; Atakan, Barış; 01.01. Units Affiliated to the Rectorate; 03.05. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology; 03. Faculty of Engineering
    This thesis focuses on modeling, analysis, and novel experimental techniques in molecular communication (MC). The objective of this thesis is to develop novel engineering solutions and modeling approaches to enable MC applications. The first part of the thesis is about microscale MC studies. In this part, a model of how a receiver nanomachine measures and reconstructs a molecular signal is proposed with a probabilistic approach. In the second part, macroscale MC studies with active transmitters are given. An experimental setup which includes a sprayer emitting alcohol molecules as a transmitter and an alcohol sensor as the receiver is employed. Using the data collected by this setup, five statistical methods, a feature extraction algorithm and the fluid dynamics-based distance estimation algorithm are proposed for distance estimation. Furthermore, a novel droplet-based signal reconstruction approach to channel modeling is proposed. Moreover, MC is utilized to propose an end-to-end system model which considers pathogen-laden cough/sneeze droplets as the input and the infection state of the human as the output. In addition, the concept of mobile human ad hoc network which exploits the similarity of airborne transmission-driven human groups with mobile ad hoc networks and uses MC as the enabling paradigm is introduced. Finally, macroscale MC studies with passive transmitters are detailed in the third part. A novel experimental platform which consists of an evaporating alcohol source and a sensor network is proposed. A sensor network based clustered localization algorithm is proposed to estimate the location of the passive transmitter.