Novel approximated zero forcing pre-coding technique with threshold for diffusion based molecular communication

Abstract

This letter proposes approximated zero forcing precoding with a threshold in molecular communication (MC). Frequency domain precoding for channel equalization is investigated. Owing to the restriction of a transmitter in MC the main part of an equalized waveform is extracted and a corresponding rectangular waveform is transmitted. In the proposed equalization scheme, the frequency component of the transmit signal is suppressed if a threshold exceeds the channel coefficient in the proposed scheme. Numerical results obtained through computer simulation show that approximation by a single rectangular waveform achieves almost the same performance as that with rectangular approximation that suppresses inter-symbol interference with the proposed precoding technique.