MBMC 2014 - 2nd IEEE JSAC special issue on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (JSAC MBMC)

As a result of recent advances in MEMS/NEMS and systems biology, as well as the emergence of synthetic bacteria and lab/process-on-a-chip techniques, it is now possible to design chemical “circuits”, custom organisms, micro/nanoscale swarms of devices, and a host of other new systems at small length scales, and across multiple scales (e.g., micro to macro). This success opens up a new frontier for interdisciplinary communications techniques using chemistry, biology, and other principles that have not been considered in the communications literature.
This series is devoted to the principles, design, and analysis of communication systems that use physics beyond classical electromagnetism, particularly for small-scale and multi-scale applications. This includes: molecular, quantum, and other physical, chemical and biological (and biologically-inspired) techniques; as well as new communication techniques at these scales. Original research articles on one or more of the following topics are within scope: mathematical modeling, information/communication-theoretic or network-theoretic analysis, networking, implementations and laboratory experiments, industrial applications, information/communication theory for analysis of biological systems, and experiment-based studies on communication processes or networks in biology. Contributions on related topics would also be considered for publication.
Contributions from researchers outside the IEEE’s typical audience are encouraged.