On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to express a warm welcome to all participants attending the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Molecular and Nano-Scale Communications (MoNaCom), IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai. We have witnessed tremendous advancement in Information and Communication Technologies in the last century. This advancement has seen development in communication networks of various scales, many of which has influenced our lives in different ways. As we progress towards the future, communication technologies will continue to advance and change, where one of expected changes will be in new communication paradigm. The IEEE MoNaCom workshop addresses one of these communication paradigm changes, in particular at nano and molecular scale. With the advancement of nanotechnologies, especially in their potential to support various advance applications such as healthcare, communication for these devices will help enhance their capabilities.

The IEEE MoNaCom has started off with a great success that has exceeded our expectations. The conference received good number of submissions in various areas of molecular communication as well as electromagnetic based nano-scale communications. The topics of the accepted papers ranged from physical layer analysis and characterization of molecular communication, to potential protocols that can be developed at molecular and nano-scale. The papers that were accepted for the workshop came from numerous countries, including: China, USA, Turkey, Spain, Ireland, Japan, Canada, and Hungary. This demonstrates the pace that this new exciting area is moving, and spreading to various research institutes and universities around the globe. From the very beginning, the aim of IEEE MoNaCom was to attract high standard research papers in this emerging area, and to use this workshop as a base to showcase the current research in this area to the wider ICT community. Based on this objective, we have managed to accept very high quality papers, many of which have strong inter-disciplinary nature. This has shown the capability of the ICT community in embracing this new area of research, and we hope that this workshop will lead to interesting discussions to further foster research in molecular and nano-scale communication. As part of the organizing committee of IEEE MoNaCom, we look forward to seeing you all in Shanghai and making this workshop a big inaugural success!

Yours Sincerely,

Ian F. Akyildiz
Albert Cabellos
Jian-Qin Liu
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam

Technical Program Committee