Abstract:
With the advent of nanotechnology, concepts related
to the Internet of Things, such as the Internet of NanoThings
and Internet of Bio-NanoThings (IoBNT) have also emerged
in the classical literature. The main concern of this paper is
the IoBNT, which projects the prospective application domain
where the activities of very tiny, biocompatible, and non-intrusive
devices operating in an in-body nanonetwork can be monitored
and controlled through the Internet. In this paper, we present
an illustrative scenario and system model of an IoBNT for
application in an advanced healthcare delivery system. To address
one of the major challenges of the IoBNT, we present an
exemplary architecture and model of a bio-cyber interface
for connecting the conventional electromagnetic-based Internet
to the biochemical signaling-based bionanonetwork. The biocyber
interface is designed and modeled by employing biological
concepts, such as the responsiveness of certain biomolecules to
thermal and light stimuli, and the bioluminescence phenomenon
of some biochemical reactions. The analysis in this paper focuses
on the system that comprises the bio-cyber interface and the
information propagation network of the blood vessel that leads to
the in-body nanonetwork location. The effects of the system and
design parameters associated with the IoBNT models presented
are numerically evaluated.
