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A biologically motivated signal transmission approach based on stochastic delay differential equation
Mingdong Xu1, Fan Wu, Henry Leung
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. xum@ucalgary.ca
Abstract:
Based on the stochastic delay differential equation (SDDE) modeling of neural networks, we propose an effective signal transmission approach along the neurons in such a network. Utilizing the linear relationship between the delay time and the variance of the SDDE system output, the transmitting side encodes a message as a modulation of the delay time and the receiving end decodes the message by tracking the delay time, which is equivalent to estimating the variance of the received signal. This signal transmission approach turns out to follow the principle of the spread spectrum technique used in wireless and wireline wideband communications but in the analog domain rather than digital. We hope the proposed method might help to explain some activities in biological systems. The idea can further be extended to engineering applications. The error performance of the communication scheme is also evaluated here.
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