Nanocommunication via FRET with DyLight Dyes using Multiple Donors and Acceptors

TL;DR

This paper explores nanocommunication using FRET with DyLight dyes, employing multiple donors and acceptors to improve reliability and demonstrate effective communication over distances exceeding 10 nm.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach using multiple donors and acceptors with DyLight dyes to enhance nanocommunication performance and reduce error rates.

Findings

Successful communication over 10 nm distances.

Use of DyLight dyes as effective nanoantennas.

Reduction of bit error rate with multiple donors and acceptors.

Abstract

The phenomenon of Forster Resonance Energy Transfer, commonly used to measure the distances between fluorophore molecules and to study interactions between fluorescent-tagged proteins in life sciences, can also be applied in nanocommunication networks to transfer information bits. The mechanism offers a relatively large throughput and very small delays, but at the same time the channel bit error rate is too high and the transmission ranges are too limited for communication purposes. In this paper, multiple donors at the transmitter side and multiple acceptors at the receiver side are considered to decrease the bit error rate. As nanoantennas, the DyLight fluorescent dyes, which are very well suited to long range nanocommunication due to their large Forster distances and high degrees of labeling, are proposed. The reported results of the recent laboratory experiments confirm efficient communication on distances over 10 nm.