BloodVoyagerS: simulation of the work environment of medical nanobots

The simulation of nanobots in their working environment is crucial to promote their application in the medical context. Several simulators for nanonetworks investigate new communication paradigms at nanoscale. However, the influence of the environment, namely the human body, on the movement and communication of nanobots was rarely considered so far. We propose a framework for simulating medical nanonetworks, which integrates a nanonetwork simulator with a body simulator. We derive requirements for a body model that forms the basis for our prototypical implementation of the body simulator BloodVoyagerS as part of the network simulator ns-3. Our evaluation shows that BloodVoyagerS successfully moves nanobots in the simulated cardiovascular system. After about 7 minutes, the nanobot distribution reaches a dynamic equilibrium. The prototype shows promise to provide a more realistic full-body simulation to investigate movement and communication of nanobots in medical applications.