Communication of uncoded sensor measurements through nanoscale binary-node stochastic pooling networks

Nano Communication Networks

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-223

  McDonnell, Mark D ^a   Stocks, Nigel G ^b   Amblard, Pierre Olivier ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analog to digital conversion; Information theory; Mismatched quantization; Nanoscale communication; Nanoscale network; Quantization; Rate distortion; Single letter transmission; Stochastic pooling network; Suprathreshold stochastic resonance; Uncoded transmission

Indexed keywords

MISMATCHED QUANTIZATION; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE NETWORKS; QUANTIZATION; RATE DISTORTIONS; SINGLE LETTER TRANSMISSION; STOCHASTIC POOLING NETWORKS; SUPRATHRESHOLD STOCHASTIC RESONANCE; UNCODED TRANSMISSION;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SENSORS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649710384     PISSN: 18787789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nancom.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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