Silence based communication. Dhulipala, A., Fragouli, C., & Orlitsky, A. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2010.
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Communication complexity—the minimum amount of communication required—of computing a function of data held by several parties is studied. A communication model where silence is used to convey information is introduced. For this model the worst-case and average-case complexities of symmetric functions are studied. For binary-input functions the average- and worst-case complexities are determined and the protocols achieving them are described. For functions of non-binary inputs one-round communication, where each party is restricted to communicate in consecutive stages, is considered and the extra amount of communication required by one- over multi-round communication is analyzed. For the special case of ternary-input functions close lower and upper bounds on the worst-case one-round complexity are provided and protocols achieving them are described. Protocols achieving the average-case one-round complexity for ternary-input functions are also described. These protocols can be generalized to inputs of arbitrary size.
@article{dhulipala_silence_2010,
 abstract = {Communication complexity—the minimum amount of communication required—of computing a function of data held by several parties is studied. A communication model where silence is used to convey information is introduced. For this model the worst-case and average-case complexities of symmetric functions are studied. For binary-input functions the average- and worst-case complexities are determined and the protocols achieving them are described. For functions of non-binary inputs one-round communication, where each party is restricted to communicate in consecutive stages, is considered and the extra amount of communication required by one- over multi-round communication is analyzed. For the special case of ternary-input functions close lower and upper bounds on the worst-case one-round complexity are provided and protocols achieving them are described. Protocols achieving the average-case one-round complexity for ternary-input functions are also described. These protocols can be generalized to inputs of arbitrary size.},
 type={2},
 author = {Dhulipala, A. and Fragouli, C. and Orlitsky, A.},
 journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},
 tags = {sensor_networks},
 title = {Silence based communication},
 volume = {56},
 year = {2010}
}

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