Capacity of a Simple Intercellular Signal Transduction Channel
Information Theory
2016-11-17 v1 math.IT
Cell Behavior
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.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1305.2245,
title = {Capacity of a Simple Intercellular Signal Transduction Channel},
author = {Andrew W. Eckford and Peter J. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2245},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory