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Reservoir Computing-Based Detection for Molecular Communications
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In mobile diffusive molecular communication, time-varying channels induce severe inter-symbol interference (ISI), while conventional detection methods either rely on accurate channel state information (CSI) or incur high computational complexity when employing deep learning models. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a low-complexity reservoir computing (RC)-based detection scheme. It employs a fixed, randomly initialized recurrent network to project received signals into a high-dimensional nonlinear state space, transforming sequential detection into a lightweight linear classification task—eliminating the need for real-time CSI estimation or parameter retraining. Evaluated in Smoldyn simulations, the method achieves significantly lower bit error rates than classical detectors and deep models (e.g., LSTM, CNN, MLP), with only ~300 trainable parameters and a per-symbol inference latency of merely 1 μs. This offers an efficient, robust, and hardware-friendly detection paradigm for resource-constrained nanoscale devices.
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📝 Abstract
Diffusion-based Molecular Communication (MC) is inherently challenged by severe inter-symbol interference (ISI). This is significantly amplified in mobile scenarios, where the channel impulse response (CIR) becomes time-varying and stochastic. Obtaining accurate Channel State Information (CSI) for traditional model-based detection is intractable in such dynamic environments. While deep learning (DL) offers adaptability, its complexity is unsuitable for resource-constrained micro/nanodevices. This paper proposes a low-complexity Reservoir Computing (RC) based detector. The RC architecture utilizes a fixed, recurrent non-linear reservoir to project the time-varying received signal into a high-dimensional state space. This effectively transforms the complex temporal detection problem into a simple linear classification task, capturing ISI dynamics without explicit channel modeling or complex retraining. Evaluated in a realistic 3D mobile MC simulation environment (Smoldyn), our RC detector significantly outperforms classical detectors and achieves superior performance compared to complex ML methods (LSTM, CNN, MLP) under severe ISI. Importantly, RC achieves this with significantly fewer trainable parameters (e.g., 300 vs. up to 264k for MLP) and ultra-low latency inference (approx. 1 $mu$s per symbol).
Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Detecting molecular signals in mobile diffusion-based communication systems
Overcoming severe inter-symbol interference without channel modeling
Enabling low-complexity detection for resource-constrained nanodevices
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Reservoir Computing detector for molecular communications
Fixed recurrent reservoir projects signals into high-dimensional space
Transforms temporal detection into linear classification task
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