Publications

Journals
  • Balasubramaniam, S., Barros, M. T., Veletić, M., Kanada, M., Pierobon, M., Vainio, S., & Balasingham, I.  "Editorial—Special Issue on Molecular Communications for Diagnostics and Therapeutic Development of Infectious Diseases," IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 117- 120, September 2021.  [PDF] 
     
  • Barros, M. T., Veletić, M., Kanada, M., Pierobon, M., Vainio, S., Balasingham, I., & Balasubramaniam, S.  "Molecular Communications in Viral Infections Research: Modelling, Experimental Data and Future Directions," IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 121- 141, September 2021.  [PDF] 
     
  • Bi, D., Deng, Y., Pierobon, M., and Nallanathan, A.  "Chemical Reactions-based Microfluidic Transmitter and Receiver Design for Molecular Communication," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 5590 - 5605, September 2020.  [PDF] 
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Chen, J., Ghovanloo, M., Guler, U., Ozkaya-Ahmadov, T., Pierobon, M., Sarioglu, A. F., Unluturk, B. D. ,  "Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis as a Biomolecular Communication Network for the Internet of Bio-NanoThings," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 136161-136175, September 2019. [PDF] 
     
  • Mucchi L., Martinelli, A., Jayousi, S., Caputo, S., and Pierobon, M.  "Secrecy Capacity and Secure Distance for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication Systems," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 110687-110697, August 2019. [PDF] 
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Pierobon, M. , and Balasubramaniam, S. "An Information Theoretic Framework to Analyze Molecular Communication Systems Based on Statistical Mechanics," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 107, no. 7, pp. 1230-1255, July 2019.  [PDF] 
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Pierobon, M. , and Balasubramaniam, S. "Moving Forward with Molecular Communication: From Theory to Human Health Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 107, no. 5, pp. 858-865, May 2019. [PDF] 
     
  • Marzo, J. L., Jornet J. M., and Pierobon, M., "Nanonetworks in Biomedical Applications," Current Drug Targets, vol. 8, no. 9, 2019.
     
  • Marcone, A., Pierobon, M., and Magarini, M. "Parity-Check Coding Based on Genetic Circuits for Engineered Molecular Communication Between Biological Cells," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 6221-6236, December 2018. [PDF] 
     
  • Martins, D. P., Barros, M. T., Pierobon, M., Kandhavelu, M., Lio’, P., and Balasubramaniam, S. "Computational Models for Trapping Ebola Virus Using Engineered Bacteria,"  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 217-2027, November/December 2018. [PDF] 
     
  • Chahibi, Y., Pierobon, M., and Akyildiz, I. F., "Pharmacokinetic Modeling and Biodistribution Estimation through the Molecular Communication Paradigm," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 2410-2420, September 2015. [PDF] 
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Pierobon, M. , Balasubramaniam, S. , Koucheryavy, Y., "The Internet of Bio-Nano Things," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 32-40, March 2015. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "A Statistical-physical Model of Interference in Diffusion-based Molecular Nanonetworks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 2085-2095, June 2014. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M., "A Systems-Theoretic Model of a Biological Circuit for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks,"Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier), vol. 5, no. 1-2, pp. 25-34, March-June 2014. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M., Jornet, J. M., Akkari, N., Almasri, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., "A Routing Framework for Energy Harvesting Wireless Nanosensor Networks in the Terahertz Band," ACM-Springer Journal of Wireless Networks (ACM WINET), vol. 20, no 5, pp. 1169-1183, July 2014. [PDF] 
     
  • Chahibi, Y., Pierobon, M., Song, S. O., and Akyildiz, I. F., "A Molecular Communication System Model for Particulate Drug Delivery Systems," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 3468-3483, 2013. [PDF] 
     
  • Llatser, I., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., Pierobon, M., and Alarcon, E., "Detection Techniques for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 726–-734, December 2013. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Capacity of a Diffusion-based Molecular Communication System with Channel Memory and Molecular Noise," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 942–-954, February 2013. [PDF] 
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Jornet, J. M., and Pierobon, M., "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications," Communications of the ACM, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 84-89, November 2011.  [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Noise Analysis in Ligand-binding Reception for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 4168–4182, September 2011. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Diffusion-based Noise Analysis for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks,"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 2532–2547, June 2011. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M., Akyildiz, I. F., “A Physical End-to-End Model for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 602–611, May 2010. [PDF] 
     
Conferences
  • Sakkaff, Z., Unluturk, B.,   Pierobon, M. “Applying Molecular Communication Theory to Multi-Scale Integrated Models of Biological Pathways,” In Proceedings of the ACM 6th International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2019), September 2019.

  • Mucchi, L., Martinelli, A., Caputo, S., Jayousi, S.,   Pierobon, M. “Secrecy Capacity of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication Systems,” In Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), October 2018.

  • Sakkaff, Z., Immaneni, A.,   Pierobon, M. “Applying Molecular Communication Theory to Estimate Information Loss in Cell Signal Transduction: An Approach Based on Cancer Transcriptomics,” In Proceedings of the ACM 5th International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2018), September 2018. [PDF]

  • Sakkaff, Z., Immaneni, A.,   Pierobon, M. “Estimating the Molecular Information Through Cell Signal Transduction Pathways,” In Proceedings of the IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), June 2018. [PDF]

  • Harper, C., Pierobon, M.,  Magarini, M. “Estimating Information Exchange Performance of Engineered Cell-to-cell Molecular Communications: a Computational Approach,”  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, HI, April 2018. [PDF]

  • Deng, Y., Pierobon, M.,   Arumugam, N. “A Microfluidic Feed Forward Loop Pulse Generator for Molecular Communication,” In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017), December 2017.[PDF][IEEE GLOBECOM Selected Areas in Communications Best Paper Award 2017]

  • Ghiasi Rad, M., Immaneni, A., McCabe, M., Pierobon, M.,   Cui, J. “A simulation model of glucose-insulin metabolism and implementation on OSG,”  In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Kansas City, MO, December 2017. [PDF]

  • Sakkaff, Z., Catlett, J. L., Cashman, M., Pierobon, M., Buan, N., Cohen M.,   Kelley, C. A. “End-to-end Molecular Communication Channels in Cell Metabolism: an Information Theoretic Study,” In Proceedings of the ACM 4th International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2017), September 2017. [PDF][ACM NanoCom Best Paper Award 2017]

  • Marcone, A., Pierobon, M.,  Magarini, M. “The Gaussian Approximation in Soft Detection for Molecular Communication Via Biological Circuits,” In Proceedings of the IEEE 18th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), July 2017. [PDF]

  • Marcone, A., Pierobon, M.,  Magarini, M. “A Biological Circuit Design for Modulated Parity-check Encoding in Molecular Communication,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2017. [PDF]

  • Marcone, A., Pierobon, M.,  Magarini, M. “A Parity Check Analog Decoder for Molecular Communication based on Biological Circuits,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, May 2017. [PDF] [IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Runner-up Award]

  • Khodaei, A., Vakilzadian, H., Pierobon, M. “A Frequency Analysis on Calcium T-type Signaling in the Nervous System,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), May 2017. [PDF]

  • Hanisch, N.,   Pierobon, M. “Digital Modulation and Achievable Information Rates of Thru-body Haptic Communications,”  In Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Defense + Security (DCS), April 2017. [PDF]

  • Cohen, M. B., Firestone, J.,  Pierobon, M., “The Assurance Timeline: Building Assurance Cases for Synthetic Biology,” In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-Intensive Systems (ASSURE 2016), Trondheim, Norway, September 2016. [PDF]

  • Khodaei, A.,   Pierobon, M., “Subthreshold Linear Modeling of Dendritic Trees: A Computational Approach,” In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of IEEE in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, August 2016. [PDF]

  • Pierobon, M., Sakkaff, Z., Catlett, J. L., and Buan, N. R., “Mutual Information Upper Bound of Molecular Communication Based on Cell Metabolism,” In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International workshop on Signal Processing advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2016), Edinburg, UK, July 2016. [PDF]

  • Khodaei, A.  Pierobon M., “An Intra-body Linear Channel Model Based on Neuronal Subthreshold Stimulation,” In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016. [PDF]
    

  • Laddomada, M., Pierobon, M., "A Biochemical Filter for Frequency-Based Signal Reception in Molecular Communication," In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, USA, December 2015. [PDF] 
     
  • Laddomada, M., Pierobon, M., "A Cross-talk-based Filter Design in Biochemical Signal Transduction Pathways for the Internet of Bio-Things," In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015, Brisbane, Australia, April 2015. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M., "A Molecular Communication System Model Based on Biological Circuits," In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM NANOCOM 2014), Atlanta, GA, May 2014. [PDF] 
     
  • Chahibi, Y., Pierobon, M. and Song, S. O., "Molecular Communication Model of Nanoparticle-Body Interactions In Particulate Drug Delivery Systems," In Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2013. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Intersymbol and Co-channel Interference in Diffusion-based Molecular Communication," In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), ICC, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012, 6126-6131. [PDF] 
     
  • Llatser, I., Alarcon, E. and Pierobon, M., “Diffusion-based Channel Characterization in Molecular Nanonetworks,” In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011, 467-472. [PDF] 
     
  • Llatser, I., Pascual, I., Garralda, N., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., Pierobon, M., Alarcón, E. and Solé-Pareta, J, “Exploring the Physical Channel of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication by Simulation,” In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, USA, 2011, 1-5. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Information Capacity of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, INFOCOM, Miniconference, Shanghai, China, April 2011. [PDF] 
     
  • Garralda, N., Llatser, I., Cabellos-Aparicio, A. and Pierobon, M., "Simulation-based Evaluation of the Diffusion-based Physical Channel in Molecular Nanonetworks," In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano Scale Communication (MoNaCom), INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011, 443-448. [PDF] 
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Jornet, J. M. and Pierobon, M., “Propagation Models for Nanocommunication Networks,” Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Barcelona, Spain, April 2010, 1-5. [PDF] 
     
  • Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S., “3D Markerless Human Limb Localization through Robust Energy Minimization,” In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France, October 2008, 1-12.

  • Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S., A Human Action Classifier from 4-D Data (3-D+Time) Based on an Invariant Body Shape Descriptor and Hidden Markov Models,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007, 406-413.

  • Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S., “Classification Of Human Body Actions by Invariant Body Shape Descriptor,” Proc. of ICOB 2005, Workshop on Immersive Communication and Broadcast Systems, Berlin, Germany, October 27-28 2005.

  • Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S., "3-D Body Posture Tracking for Human Action Template Matching," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2, Toulouse, France, May 2006, 501-504.

  • Pierobon, M., Marcon, M., Sarti, A. and Tubaro, S., “Clustering of Human Actions using Invariant Body Shape Descriptor and Dynamic Time Warping,”In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Como, Italy, September 2005, 22-27.
Books
  • Akyildiz, I.F. and Jornet, J.M. and Pierobon, M.  "Nanonetworks," In Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland, ISBN: 978-3-319-78263-8, August 2018.
  • Pierobon, M. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Fundamentals of Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," Now Publishers Inc, ISBN-10: 1601988168, ISBN-13: 978-1601988164, 164 pages, 2014.
Patents
  • Neri, D., Pierobon, M., Prati, L., Semmoloni, M., “Method of Adaptively Dejittering Packetized Signals Buffered at the Receiver of a Communication Network Node,” Assignees: NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS GMBH & CO KG, Publication Number: WO/2008/068167, Publication Date: June 12, 2008.

  • Pierobon, M., Prati, L., “Method for Estimating Jitter Buffer Management Performance,” Assignees: NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS GMBH & CO KG, Publication Number: EP1919137A1, Publication Date: May 12, 2008.

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