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Neurons in the central nervous system are affected by complex and noisy signals due to fluctuations in their cellular environment and in the inputs they receive from many other cells 1,2. Such noise usually increases the probability that a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-05-06 Boris S. Gutkin , Juergen Jost , Henry C. Tuckwell

Too high sampling rate is the bottleneck to wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive radio (CR). As the survey shows that the sensed signal has a sparse representation in frequency domain in the mass, compressed sensing (CS) can be used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-12 Yipeng Liu , Qun Wan

Cells sense external concentrations and, via biochemical signaling, respond by regulating the expression of target proteins. Both in signaling networks and gene regulation there are two main mechanisms by which the concentration can be…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-12 Gabriele Micali , Gerardo Aquino , David M. Richards , Robert G. Endres

Network Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a fundamental component of mobile cellular network monitoring and optimization. Their massive volume, resulting from fine-grained measurements collected across many cells over long time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Andrea Pimpinella , Fabio Palmese , Alessandro E. C. Redondi

Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

We study and analyze the fundamental aspects of noise propagation in recurrent as well as deep, multi-layer networks. The main focus of our study are neural networks in analogue hardware, yet the methodology provides insight for networks in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Nadezhda Semenova , Xavier Porte , Louis Andreoli , Maxime Jacquot , Laurent Larger , Daniel Brunner

Integrating sensing into standardized communication systems can potentially benefit many consumer applications that require both radio frequency functions. However, without an effective sensing method, such integration may not achieve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Kai Wu , J. Andrew Zhang , Xiaojing Huang , Y. Jay Guo

Realistic quantum sensors face a trade-off between the number of sensors measured in parallel and the control and readout fidelity ($F$) across the ensemble. We investigate how the number of sensors and fidelity affect sensitivity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Sara Mouradian , Neil Glikin , Eli Megidish , Kai-Isaak Ellers , Hartmut Haeffner

Living cells are continually exposed to environmental signals that vary in time. These signals are detected and processed by biochemical networks, which are often highly stochastic. To understand how cells cope with a fluctuating…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2012-06-01 Wiet de Ronde , Filipe Tostevin , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

The absorption and emission spectrum arising from the vibrational motion of a molecule is mostly in the infrared region. These fingerprint absorptions of polar bonds enable us to acquire bond-specific chemical information from specimens.…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-15 Govind Dayal , Dheeraj Pratap

We investigate single-cell directional sensing from diffusing chemoattractant signals released by a localized source. We focus on the low-concentration regime in which receptor activity is discrete and cellular decisions are made on…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-12 Vincent Fiorino , Sean D. Lawley , Alan E. Lindsay

In genetic networks, information of relevance to the organism is represented by the concentrations of transcription factor molecules. In order to extract this information the cell must effectively "measure"' these concentrations, but there…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-13 Marianne Bauer , Mariela D. Petkova , Thomas Gregor , Eric F. Wieschaus , William Bialek

Cell imaging and analysis are fundamental to biomedical research because cells are the basic functional units of life. Among different cell-related analysis, cell counting and detection are widely used. In this paper, we focus on one common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Haoyi Liang , Aijaz Naik , Cedric L. Williams , Jaideep Kapur , Daniel S. Weller

Molecular communication (MC) is a promising paradigm for applications where traditional electromagnetic communications are impractical. However, decoding chemical signals, especially in multi-transmitter systems, remains a key challenge due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Vivien Walter , Dadi Bi , Daniel L. Ruiz Blanco , Yansha Deng

With the severe spectrum shortage in conventional cellular bands, millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies have been attracting growing attention for next-generation micro- and picocellular wireless networks. A fundamental and open question is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Mattia Rebato , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan , Federico Boccardi , Michele Zorzi

Stochasticity (or noise) at cellular and molecular levels has been observed extensively as a universal feature for living systems. However, how living systems deal with noise while performing desirable biological functions remains a major…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-22 Qing Nie , Lingxia Qiao , Yuchi Qiu , Lei Zhang , Wei Zhao

Small chemical sensors are subjected to adsorption-desorption fluctuations which usually considered as noise contaminating useful signal. Based on temporal properties of this noise, it is shown that it can be made useful if proper…

General Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Alexander K. Vidybida

Spectrum sensing is a fundamental component of cognitive radio. How to promptly sense the presence of primary users is a key issue to a cognitive radio network. The time requirement is critical in that violating it will cause harmful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Feng Lin , Robert C. Qiu , James P. Browning

The collection of accurate and noise-free data is a crucial part of Internet of Things (IoT)-controlled environments. However, the data collected from various sensors in daily life often suffer from inaccuracies. Additionally,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Seokho Ahn , Hyungjin Kim , Euijong Lee , Young-Duk Seo

Spectrum sensing technology is a crucial aspect of modern communication technology, serving as one of the essential techniques for efficiently utilizing scarce information resources in tight frequency bands. This paper first introduces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Fanfei Meng , Yuxin Wang , Lele Zhang , Yingxin Zhao