Errors and power when communicating with spins
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Author(s)
Gelenbe, E
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We consider a network composed of a finite set of communicating nodes that send individual particles to each other, and each particle can carry binary information. Though our main motivation is related to communications in nanonetworks with electrons that carry magnetic spin as the bipolar information, one can also imagine that the particles may be molecules that use chirality to convey information. Since it is difficult for a particle to carry an identifier that conveys the identity of the “source” or “destination”, each node receives particles whose source cannot be ascertained since physical imperfections may result in particles being directed to the wrong destination in a manner that interferes with the correctly directed particles, and particles that should arrive at a node may be received by some other node. In addition, noise may randomly switch the polarity of particles, and in the case of magnetic spin we can also have the effect of entanglement.We estimate the error probability in such a multipoint network as a function of the rate of flow of particles, and the power consumption per communicating pair of nodes. We then design a bipolar detector and show that it can significantly eliminate the effect of errors.
Date Issued
2015-12-02
Date Acceptance
2015-08-18
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2015, 3 (4), pp.483-488
ISSN
2168-6750
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
483
End Page
488
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Volume
3
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2015 IEEE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/K017330/1
Publication Status
Published