Design and Evaluation of Self-Assembled Actin-Based Nano-Communication

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel wired nano-communication method using self-assembled actin filaments to create nano wires for electron-based data transfer, addressing limitations of existing wireless molecular and electromagnetic approaches.

Contribution

It proposes a new actin-based nano-wire formation method for stable, high-throughput nano-communication, supported by stochastic simulations and stability analysis.

Findings

Nano wires formed via actin self-assembly are stable and reliable.

The proposed method achieves high data throughput.

Simulation results confirm the stability and low error probability.

Abstract

The tremendous progress in nanotechnology over the last century, makes it possible to engineer tiny nanodevices, which they need a nano-communication network to interact. Two solutions are proposed in literature to create a nano-communication system, either by using the classical electromagnetic paradigm with Terahertz band, or using the bio-inspired molecular communication. However, Terahertz is suffering from molecular absorption and scattering losses at nano level, and the achievable throughput of molecular communication is very low. In this paper, we propose a new solution to establish a wired nano-communication. Self-assembled actin-based is a new method that takes advantage of actin filaments self-assembly to create a nano wire between a transmitter and a receiver, and use electrons as information carriers. VPython framework is used in this paper to perform stochastic simulations of the nano wire formation. The algorithms used for the simulations are presented. The stability of the constructed nano wire is analyzed, and the error probability is calculated. Self-assembled actin-based method promises a fast and stable nano-communication system with a very high achievable throughput.