A Scalable Framework for Defect Isolation of DNA Self-assemlbled Networks

This paper presents and evaluates an approach for defect isolation of DNA self-assembled networks made of a large number of processing nodes. A previous framework based on a broadcast algorithm isolates defective nodes by using no redundancy (for the nodes) and an external defect map. Its disadvantage is the limited scalability, thus making it unsuitable for extremely large scale networks built through DNA self-assembly. Our framework improves upon the previous framework by involving three algorithmic tiers; namely, 1-hop wave expansion, efficient via placement, and unsafe node defection. The efficiency of the proposed framework is evaluated and compared with the original framework by considering large scale networks (up to 1000 times 1000 nodes), and a novel gross defect model (as well as the conventional random defect model assumed in previous manuscripts). Simulation results indicate that the proposed framework outperforms the original framework in broadcast latency and coverage, and shows excellent scalability features for DNA self-assembled nano-scale networks.