In complex neural circuits of the brain, massive information is processed with neuronal communication through synaptic transmissions. It is thus fundamental to delineate information flows encoded by various kinds of transmissions. Here, we show that glutamate signals from two distinct sensory neurons bidirectionally affect the same postsynaptic interneuron, thereby producing the opposite behavi...

In this report we present a simple and stateless broadcasting protocol called Dynamic Delayed Broadcasting (DDB) which allows locally optimal broadcasting without any knowledge about the neighborhood. As DDB does not require any transmissions of control messages, it conserves critical network resources such as battery power and bandwidth. Local optimality is achieved by applying a principle of ...

This paper addresses robust link adaptation for a precoded downlink multiple input single output (MISO) system, for guaranteeing ultra-reliable (99.999%) transmissions to mobile users served by a small cell network (e.g. slowly moving machines in a factory). Effects of inaccurate channel state information (CSI) caused by user mobility and varying precoders in neighboring cells are mitigated. Bo...

In this paper, an ongoing research activity to reduce response time in web file transmissions is presented. A new transmission technique, object packaging, is proposed for reduced response time for web browsing. Object packaging aims to reduce overhead not only at routers on a transmission path but at a transmitting web serve for better response time. The object packaging intends to address two...

The acquisition problem in wavelet-based modulation is very important. We discuss the problem of the MLbased method proposed in [1] for timing acquisition and then we develop a novel acquisition algorithm. Our method uses the properties of the scaling function in the derivation of the acquisition function. We also show that the S-curve of our acquisition algorithm is smooth and has a unique zer...

We investigate a scheduling problem in which packets, or datagrams, may be fragmented. While there are a few applications to scheduling with datagram fragmentation, our model of the problem is derived from a scheduling problem present in data over CATV networks. In the scheduling problem datagrams of variable lengths must be assigned (packed) into fixed length time slots. One of the capabilitie...

We investigate cost-sharing algorithms for multicast transmission. Economic considerations point to two distinct mechanisms, marginal cost and Shapley value, as the two solutions most appropriate in this context. We prove that the former has a natural algorithm that uses only two messages per link of the multicast tree, while we give evidence that the latter requires a quadratic total number of...

Coding/decoding techniques represent important error correction methods in multiple access transmissions which ensure reliable communications. This paper aims to evaluate the results obtained by combining of two relevant techniques (convolutional and LDPC), analyzing their joint effects based on the BER performances. Multiple access transmission is achieved with different types of signature seq...

Emotional experiences are frequently shaped by the emotional responses of co-present others. Research has shown that people constantly monitor and adapt to the incoming social-emotional signals, even without face-to-face interaction. And yet, the neural processes underlying such emotional transmissions have not been directly studied. Here, we investigated how the human brain processes emotional...

Tonic comprehension is the ability to interpret music as notation and therefore the ability to reproduce it on any given instrument of choice. However, this is in an art that takes long years of practice to develop, if at all; clearly it is the threshold that marks a novice musician from an expert. Smart Music is a mobile application that seeks to bridge this gap and thus ease the learning proc...