Title
Information friction limits on computation
Abstract
The recently proposed “Information friction” model accounts for energy losses incurred in moving bits on a computational substrate and was first studied in the context of encoding and decoding computations for communication. Information friction loss is modeled as being proportional to bit-meters, the sum of the lengths over which the bits are transported during the computation. Its analysis provides us with an understanding of the fundamental energy requirements for computation. In this paper, we obtain lower bounds on information friction for several canonical computations that have been analyzed to obtain “AT2” bounds in the context of what is called “VLSI complexity” and, more recently, in deriving computation throughput in the context of wireless sensor networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ALLERTON.2014.7028441
Allerton
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational complexity,information theory,at2 bounds,vlsi complexity,bit-meters,canonical computations,energy losses,information friction limits,information friction loss,wireless sensor networks
Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Computational science,Decoding methods,Throughput,Wireless sensor network,Very-large-scale integration,Friction loss,Distributed computing,Encoding (memory),Computation
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2474-0195
1
0.37
References 
Authors
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pooja Vyavahare154.11
Mahzoon, M.251.59
Pulkit Grover355765.99
Nutan Limaye413420.59
d manjunath5165.60