Molecular Communication: New Paradigm for Communication among Nanoscale Biological Machines

Handbook of Computer Networks

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 1034-1054

  Moore, Michael ^a   Enomoto, Akihiro ^a   Suda, Tatsuya ^a   Nakano, Tadashi ^a   Okaie, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering of molecular communication; Molecular communication; Molecular communication in biological systems; Nanoscale biological machines; New paradigm for communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886197665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118256107.ch67     Document Type: Chapter

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