8th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
Virtual Conference, September 7-9, 2021
Endorsed by
IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (MBMC-TC)
8th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
Virtual Conference, September 7-9, 2021
Endorsed by
IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications (MBMC-TC)
Sessions
| Technical Session 1: Terahertz and Optical Nanocommunications |
| Session Chair: Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) |
| Time: Tuesday, September 7 - 6:15-7:15 (PST), 9:15-10:15 (EST), 15:15-16:15 (CET), 22:15-23:15 (JST) |
| An On-Chip Amplitude and Frequency Modulating Graphene-based Plasmonic Terahertz Signal Nano-Generator |
| Justin Crabb (Northeastern University, USA); Gregory Aizin (Kingsborough Community College, USA); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern University, USA) |
| Joint Nanoscale Communication and Sensing Enabled by Plasmonic Nano-antennas |
| Amit Sangwan (Northeastern University, USA); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern University, USA) |
| The Impact of the Quantum Data Plane Overhead on the Throughput |
| Jessica Illiano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia, Italy); Marcello Caleffi (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy) |
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| Technical Session 2: Intra-Body System Models |
| Session Chair: Daniel Martins (Walton Institute) |
| Time: Wednesday, September 8 - 5:00-6:00 (PST), 8:00-9:00 (EST), 14:00-15:00 (CET), 21:00-22:00 (JST) |
| Cardiac Bio-Nanonetwork: Extracellular Vesicles Release Modeling for Engineered Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocyte |
| Hamid Khoshfekr Rudsari (University of Oslo & Oslo University Hospital, Norway); Mladen Veletić (Oslo University Hospital, Norway); Jacob Bergsland (Oslo University Hospital, Norway); Ilangko Balasingham (Norwegian University of Science & Technology & Oslo University Hospital, Norway) |
| Markov Model for the Flow of Nanobots in the Human Circulatory System |
| Jorge Torres Gomez (TU Berlin, Germany); Regine Wendt (University of Lübeck, Germany); Anke Kuestner (TU Berlin, Germany); Ketki Pitke (TU Berlin, Germany); Lukas Stratmann (TU Berlin, Germany); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany) |
| Subjective Information in Life Processes: A Computational Case Study |
| Tyler Barker (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Peter J Thomas (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Massimiliano Pierobon (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) |
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| Technical Session 3: Molecular Communications |
| Session Chair: Werner Haselmayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz) |
| Time: Thursday, September 9 - 5:00-6:20 (PST), 8:00-9:20 (EST), 14:00-15:20 (CET), 21:00-22:20 (JST) |
| A Mechanical Transduction-Based Molecular Communication Receiver for Internet of Nano Things (IoNT) |
| Dilara Aktas (Koç University, Turkey); Ozgur Akan (Koç University, Turkey) |
| Area Rate Efficiency in Molecular Communications |
| Lukas Brand (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Sebastian Lotter (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Vahid Jamali (Princeton University, USA); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
| Statistical Modeling of Airborne Virus Transmission Through Imperfectly Fitted Face Masks |
| Sebastian Lotter (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Lukas Brand (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Maximilian Schäfer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
| On the Optimization of Derivative-Based Receivers for Molecular Communications |
| Mustafa C Gursoy (University of Southern California, USA); Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA) |
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| Technical Session 4: Experimental Results in Nanocom |
| Session Chair: Bhuvana Krishnaswamy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| Time: Thursday, September 9 - 7:00-8:00 (PST), 10:00-11:00 (EST), 16:00-17:00 (CET), 23:00-00:00 (+1) (JST) |
| Electromyography Data Transmission via Galvanic Coupling Intra-body Communication Link |
| Anna Vizziello (University of Pavia, Italy); Pietro Savazzi (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy); Giovanni Magenes (University of Pavia, Italy) |
| Practical Assessment of Payload- Header Switching in Microfluidic Networks |
| Medina Hamidovic (Johannes Kepler University, Austria); Gerold Fink (Johannes Kepler University, Austria); Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria); Andreas Springer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria); Werner Haselmayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) |
| Increasing the Channel Capacity: Parallel Data Transmission in a Testbed for Molecular Communication |
| Max Bartunik (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Matthias Streb (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Harald Unterweger (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany); Jakob Haller (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Jens Kirchner (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany) |
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| Special Session 1: Quantum Computing and Networking Systems |
| Session Chair: Swamit Tannu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| Time: Tuesday, September 7 - 7:30-8:30 (PST), 10:30-11:30 (EST), 16:30-17:30 (CET), 23:30-00:30 (+1) (JST) |
| Invited talk: A Quantum Era in Computing, Networking, and Sensing |
| Swamit Tannu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
| Modelling Short-range Quantum Teleportation for Scalable Multi-Core Quantum Computing Architectures |
| Santiago Rodrigo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) & NaNoNetwoking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat), Spain); Carmen G. Almudever (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain); Eduard Alarcon (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain) |
| On the Co-Design of Quantum Software and Hardware |
| Gushu Li (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Anbang Wu (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Yunong Shi (Amazon Braket, USA); Ali Javadi-Abhari (IBM Quantum, USA); Yufei Ding (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Yuan Xie (UCSB, USA) |
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| Special Session 2: Interconnection Architectures for 2.5D and 3D Chip Integration |
| Session Chairs: Maurizio Palesi (University of Catania) and Amlan Ganguly (Rochester Institute of Technology) |
| Time: Tuesday, September 7 - 8:30-9:50 (PST), 11:30-12:50 (EST), 17:30-18:50 (CET), 00:30-01:50 (+1) (JST) |
| The Open Domain-Specific Architecture: Next Steps to Production |
| Bapi Vinnakota (Broadcom & Open Compute Project, USA) |
| Technology-aware Router Architectures for On-Chip-Networks in Heterogeneous Technologies |
| Lennart Bamberg (GrAI Matter Labs, The Netherlands); Tushar Krishna (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Jan Moritz Joseph (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) |
| RAP-NoC: Reliability Assessment of Photonic Network-on-Chips, A simulator |
| Meisam Abdollahi (University of Tehran & Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Mohammad Baharloo (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) Tehran, Iran); Fateme Shokouhinia (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Masoumeh Ebrahimi (KTH Royal Institute of Techology & University of Turku, Finland) |
| A Methodology for Simulating Multi-chiplet Systems Using Open-source Simulators |
| Haocong Zhi (SCUT, China); Xianuo Xu (SCUT, China); Weijian Han (SCUT, China); Zhilin Gao (SCUT, China); Xiaohang Wang (SCUT, China); Maurizio Palesi (University of Catania, Italy); Amit Singh (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Letian Huang (UESTC, China) |
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| Special Session 3: Astrocytes in modulation of subcellular and cellular molecular neuronal communication |
| Session Chair: Jari Hyttinen (Tampere University) |
| Time: Wednesday, September 8 - 7:15-8:15 (PST), 10:15-11:15 (EST), 16:15-17:15 (CET), 23:15-00:15 (+1) (JST) |
| Stochastic Spatially-Extended Simulations Predict the Effect of ER Distribution on Astrocytic Microdomain Ca2+ Activity |
| Audrey Denizot (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Corrado Calì (Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi, University of Turin, Italy); Hugues Berry (INRIA, France); Erik De Schutter (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) |
| Astrocyte activation is preferentially driven by the vicinity to highly active neurons than by gap junction coupling |
| Barbara Genocchi (Tampere University, Finland); Annika Ahtiainen (Tampere University, Finland); Michael Taynnan Barros (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jarno M. A. Tanskanen (Tampere University, Finland) Jari Hyttinen (Tampere University, Finland); Kerstin Lenk (Graz University of Technology, Austria) |
| Astrocytes in modulating subcellular, cellular and intercellular molecular neuronal communication |
| Jari Hyttinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Barbara Genocchi (Tampere University, Finland); Annika Ahtiainen (Tampere University, Finland); Jarno M. A. Tanskanen (Tampere University, Finland); Kerstin Lenk (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Michael Taynnan Barros (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) |
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| Posters and Short Papers |
| Session Chairs: Michael Barros (University of Essex), Bhuvana Krishnaswamy (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) |
| Time: Wednesday, September 8 - 8:15-9:30 (PST), 11:15-12:30 (EST), 17:15-18:30 (CET), 00:15-01:30 (+1) (JST) |
| Attendees to the session may join the Zoom room used in the other sessions. The room will be divided into 13 other breakout rooms, one for each poster/short paper. In the main room, 1-min videos of each poster will be played to advertise each poster and attendees can move from there to any breakout room. In the breakout rooms, presenters will be waiting for attendees to get in and make questions as in a face-to-face poster session. If you have questions about how to connect, just enter Zoom as in any other session of the conference and the organizers will be happy to guide you. |
| Room 1 - Lau DNA-Based Molecular Communication as a Paradigm for Multi-Parameter Detection of Diseases |
| Florian-Lennert Lau (University of Lübeck, Germany); Regine Wendt (University of Lübeck, Germany); Stefan Fischer (University of Lübeck, Germany) |
| Room 2 - Damrath Application of MIMO Techniques in Macroscopic Air-based Molecular Communication |
| Martin Damrath (University of Kiel, Germany); Sunasheer Bhattacharjee (Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, Germany); Peter A. Hoeher (University of Kiel, Germany) |
| Room 3 - Karagounis A Hardware Implementation of BitSurfing for Communication without Packet Creation |
| Dimitrios Karagounis (FORTH, Greece); Christos Liaskos (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece); Ageliki Tsioliaridou (Foundation for Research and Technology, FORTH, Greece); Sotiris Ioannidis (Technical University of Crete, Greece) |
| Room 4 - Stratmann Impact of Mobility on Air-Based Macroscopic Molecular Communication - A Simulation Study |
| Lukas Stratmann (TU Berlin, Germany); Jorge Torres Gomez (TU Berlin, Germany); Sunasheer Bhattacharjee (Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, Germany); Martin Damrath (University of Kiel, Germany); Peter A. Hoeher (University of Kiel, Germany); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany) |
| Room 5 - Kuestner Age of Information in In-Body Nano Communication Networks |
| Anke Kuestner (TU Berlin, Germany); Ketki Pitke (TU Berlin, Germany); Jorge Torres Gomez (TU Berlin, Germany) ; Regine Wendt (University of Lübeck, Germany); Stefan Fischer (University of Lübeck, Germany); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany) |
| Room 6 - Pappalardo How molecular packets improve cell-to-cell communication |
| Fabrizio Pappalardo (University of Catania, Italy); Nunzio Iraci (University of Catania, Italy); Loredana Leggio (University of Catania, Italy); Alfio Lombardo (University of Catania, Italy); Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania, Italy) |
| Room 7 - Caputo Bio-Optical Communication: a case-study of Out-to-In Body Interface |
| Stefano Caputo (University of Florence, Italy); Lorenzo Biotti (University of Florence, Italy); Lorenzo Mucchi (University of Florence, Italy) |
| Room 8 - Dolev Logarithmic Time MIMO Based Self-Stabilizing Clock Synchronization |
| Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Ram Prasadh Narayanan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel); Christian Scheideler (Paderborn University, Germany); Christian Schindelhauer (University of Freiburg & Rechnernetze und Telematik an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) |
| Room 9 - Martins Binding Process Analysis of Bacterial-based AND Logic Gates |
| Daniel Martins (Walton Institute, Ireland); Sasitharan Balasubramaniam (TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland); Paul Cotter (Teagasc Food Research, Ireland); Orla O'Sullivan (Teagasc Food Research, Ireland) |
| Room 10 - Chatterjee Introducing Parallelism in Ribosomal Computing: A Feasibility Study and Analysis |
| Pratima Chatterjee (IIEST, Shibpur, India); Prasun Ghosal (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India & University of North Texas, USA) |
| Room 11 - Gorla A Mutual Information Estimate for a Redox-based Molecular-Electrical Communication Channel |
| Karthik Reddy Gorla (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Massimiliano Pierobon (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) |
| Room 12 - Horgan Quantum Money Scheme: Simulation Results |
| Jerry Horgan (Walton Institute, Ireland); Hazel Murray (Munster Technological University, Ireland); David Malone (Maynooth University, Ireland); Deirdre Kilbane (Walton Institute, Ireland) |
| Room 13 - Okaie Research Challenges in Implementation of Edge Interfaces for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things |
| Yutaka Okaie (Osaka City University, Japan) |
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| Data Competition Presentations |
| Session Organizer: Nariman Farsad (Ryerson University) and Session Chair: Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) |
| Time: Thursday, September 9 - 6.20-6:45 (PST), 9:20-9:45 (EST), 15:20-15:45 (CET), 22:20-22:45 (JST) |
| A Machine Learning Approach for Symbol Detection in Molecular Communications |
| Valerio Selis (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Daniel Tunc McGuiness (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alan Marshall (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) |
| Adaptive Distance-based Detection for Bacteria-based Molecular Communication |
| Martin Damrath (University of Kiel, Germany); Sunasheer Bhattacharjee (Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, Germany) ; Peter A. Hoeher (University of Kiel, Germany) |
| Deep Learning-based Voting System Model for Blind Bit Detection in Bacteria-based Molecular Communications Systems |
| Yahya Almardeny (Walton Institute, Ireland); Caio Fonseca (Walton Institute, Ireland); Dixon Vimalajeewa (Walton Institute, Ireland); Daniel Martins (Walton Institute, Ireland) |
| Hybrid Deep Learning-based Feature-augmented Detection For Molecular Communication Systems |
| Fardad Vakilipoor (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Davide Scazzoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Francesca Ratti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Gabriele Scalia (Politecnico di MIlano, Italy) |
| Symbol Detection for Molecular Communication |
| Zhe Han (Tongji University, China) Li Huang (Tongji University, China); Wenlong Yu (Tongji University, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China) |
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