Capacity analysis for integrate-and-fire neurons with descending action potential thresholds

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 838-851

  Suksompong, Prapun ^a   Berger, Toby ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernoulli equation; Blahut Arimoto algorithm; Capacity per unit cost; Energy efficient coding; Filtered Poisson process; Integrate and fire (IF) neuron; Jimbo Kunisawa algorithm; Rate matching; Threshold

Indexed keywords

BERNOULLI EQUATIONS; BLAHUT-ARIMOTO ALGORITHM; CAPACITY PER UNIT COST; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FILTERED POISSON PROCESS; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE (IF) NEURON; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURONS; MATCHING THRESHOLD;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIRES; NEURONS; POISSON EQUATION; TIMING JITTER;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77649313906     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2037042     Document Type: Article

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