Wireless Communication in Nanonetworks: Current Status, Prospect and Challenges

As candidate new wireless communication schemes, the molecular communication (MC) and nano-electromagnetic communication (NEC) get more and more attention. Benefit from the special communication framework, several high-value applications like healthcare monitoring and drug delivery, plants and animals monitoring, and detect and manage the corrosion of pipe can be imaged which serve the people, environment and industry from the view of nanoscale transmission. However, considered the specific information carrier, new channel characters and nanoscale transmitter and receiver, obviously the gap from theory to practice can also be imaged. In this paper, we firstly describe the requirements for MC and NEC from the vision of next generation wireless communication. Based on the requirements, five potential applications have been presented and finally, we point out some challenges from theory to practice. We hope to find out the nearest path of MC and NEC from academic research to people's real life.