Reliable communication and sensing via parallel redundancy in noisy digital receivers

Proceedings of the 2008 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 23-28

  McDonnell, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bio inspired; Bit error rate; Digital receivers; Noise; Quantization; Sensors; Suprathreshold stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; BIT-ERRORS; DIGITAL RECEIVERS; NOISE; QUANTIZATION; SUPRATHRESHOLD STOCHASTIC RESONANCE;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; COMMUNICATION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NEURONS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 66249130830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AUSCTW.2008.4460816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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