Title :
Capacity of a simple intercellular signal transduction channel
Author :
Eckford, Andrew W. ; Thomas, P.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
We model the ligand-receptor molecular communication channel with a discrete-time Markov model, and show how to obtain the capacity of this channel. We show that the capacity-achieving input distribution is iid; further, unusually for a channel with memory, we show that feedback does not increase the capacity of this channel.
Keywords :
Markov processes; channel capacity; discrete time systems; molecular communication (telecommunication); signal processing; channel capacity; discrete-time Markov model; intercellular signal transduction channel; ligand-receptor molecular communication channel; Biological system modeling; Channel capacity; Computational modeling; Markov processes; Molecular communication; Receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620544
