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Abstract

This letter derives a closed-form joint distribution of the first arrival time (FAT) and first arrival position (FAP) in diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) systems with drift. Unlike prior work that studied FAT or FAP separately, we obtain an explicit joint probability density function under constant drift and isotropic diffusion in arbitrary dimensions, revealing a nontrivial spatiotemporal coupling. Based on this result, we compute the Fisher information matrix (FIM) and show that joint observations enable estimation of lateral drift and improve sensitivity to diffusion -- capabilities not attainable with time-only or position-only models.