Wireless signaling with identical quanta

In this short paper we describe an approach and primary results for obtaining bounds on mutual information between release times and capture times for a set of M identical quanta traveling from a source to a target. The first-passage times are assumed independent and identically distributed and the launch times are constrained. One major application of area is intercellular molecular signaling in biological systems whereby a cell (or group of cells) must deliver some message (such as developmental instructions) over distance with reasonable certainty to another cell (or group of cells). Another application area is communication between components of nano/molecular computers. However, the model can also be applied to any communication systems wherein indistinguishable signals have random transit latencies.