Communication systems are usually designed by assuming perfect channel state information (CSI). However, in many practical scenarios, only a noisy estimate of the channel is available, which may strongly differ from t...
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Communication systems are usually designed by assuming perfect channel state information (CSI). However, in many practical scenarios, only a noisy estimate of the channel is available, which may strongly differ from the true channel. This imperfect CSI scenario is addressed by introducing the notion of estimation-induced outage (EIO). We derive a single-letter characterization of the maximal EIO rate and prove an associated coding theorem and its strong converse for discrete memoryless channels (DMCs). The transmitter and the receiver rely on the channel estimate and the statistics of the estimate to construct codes that guarantee reliable communication with a certain outage probability. This ensures that in the non-outage case the transmission meets the target rate with small error probability, irrespective of the quality of the channel estimate. Applications of the EIO capacity to a single-antenna (nonergodic) Ricean fading channel are considered. The EIO capacity for this case is compared to the EIO rates of a communication system in which the receiver decodes by using a mismatched maximum-likelihood (ML) decoder. The effects of rate-limited feedback to provide the transmitter with quantized CSI are also investigated.
Rate-distortion theory is considered for the Shannon cipher system (SCS), The admissible region of cryptogram rate R, key rate R-k, legitimate receiver's distortion D, and wiretapper's uncertainty h is determi...
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Rate-distortion theory is considered for the Shannon cipher system (SCS), The admissible region of cryptogram rate R, key rate R-k, legitimate receiver's distortion D, and wiretapper's uncertainty h is determined for the SCS with a noisy channel, Furthermore, inner and outer bounds of the admissible region of R, R-k, D, and wiretapper's attainable minimum distortion (D) over tilde are derived for the SCS with a finite discrete source and a noiseless channel.
A brief general review is presented of the theory of information transmission capacities of quantum communication channels, which is a development of the classical Shannon theory. Unlike a classical communication chan...
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A brief general review is presented of the theory of information transmission capacities of quantum communication channels, which is a development of the classical Shannon theory. Unlike a classical communication channel, a quantum channel is characterised by a whole set of different capacities, which depend on the type of transmitted information (classical or quantum) and on additional resources used during transmission. The main characteristics of a quantum channel are considered: classical capacity, capacity assisted by entanglement between the channel input and output, quantum capacity and secret classical capacity. The unique role of the quantum entanglement property, which manifests itself, in particular, in a nonclassical phenomenon of capacity superadditivity, is emphasised.
Let the input to a computation problem be split between two processors connected by a communication link;and let an interactive protocol pi be known by which, on any input, the processors can solve the problem using n...
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Let the input to a computation problem be split between two processors connected by a communication link;and let an interactive protocol pi be known by which, on any input, the processors can solve the problem using no more than T transmissions of bits between them, provided the channel is noiseless in each direction, We study the following question: If in fact the channel is noisy, what is the effect upon the number of transmissions needed in order to solve the computation problem reliably? Technologically this concern is motivated by the increasing importance of communication as a resource in computing, and by the tradeoff in communications equipment between bandwidth, reliability, and expense. We treat a model with random channel noise. We describe a deterministic method for simulating noiseless-channel protocols on noisy channels, with only a constant slowdown. This is an analog for general interactive protocols of Shannon's coding theorem, which deals only with data transmission, i.e., one-way protocols. We cannot use Shannon's block coding method because the bits exchanged in the protocol are determined only one at a time, dynamically, in the course of the interaction, Instead, we describe a simulation protocol using a new kind of code, explicit tree codes.
We revisit the problem of reliable interactive communication over a noisy channel and obtain the first fully (randomized) efficient constant-rate emulation procedure for reliable interactive communication. Our protoco...
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We revisit the problem of reliable interactive communication over a noisy channel and obtain the first fully (randomized) efficient constant-rate emulation procedure for reliable interactive communication. Our protocol works for any discrete memoryless noisy channel with constant capacity and fails with exponentially small probability in the total length of the protocol. Following a work by Schulman (1993), our simulation uses a tree-code, yet as opposed to the nonefficient construction of absolute tree-code used by Schulman, we introduce a relaxation in the notion of goodness for a tree code and define a potent tree code. This relaxation allows us to construct an efficient emulation procedure for any two-party protocol. Our results also extend to the case of interactive multiparty communication. We show that a randomly generated tree code (with suitable constant alphabet size) is an efficiently decodable potent tree code with overwhelming probability. Furthermore, we are able to partially derandomize this result by means of epsilon-biased distributions using only O(N) random bits, where N is the depth of the tree.
In information-spectrum methods proposed by Han and Verdu, quantities defined by using the limit superior (or inferior) in probability play crucial roles in many problems in information theory. In this paper, we intro...
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In information-spectrum methods proposed by Han and Verdu, quantities defined by using the limit superior (or inferior) in probability play crucial roles in many problems in information theory. In this paper, we introduce two nonconventional quantities defined in probabilistic ways. After clarifying basic properties of these quantities, we show that the two quantities have operational meaning in the epsilon-coding problem of a general source in the ordinary and optimistic senses. The two quantities can be used not only for obtaining variations of the strong converse theorem but also establishing upper and lower bounds on the width of the entropy-spectrum. We also show that the two quantities are expressed in terms of the smooth Renyi entropy of order zero.
We determine the capacity of compound classical-quantum channels. As a consequence, we obtain the capacity formula for the averaged classical-quantum channels. The capacity result for compound channels demonstrates, a...
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We determine the capacity of compound classical-quantum channels. As a consequence, we obtain the capacity formula for the averaged classical-quantum channels. The capacity result for compound channels demonstrates, as in the classical setting, the existence of reliable universal classical-quantum codes in scenarios where the only a priori information about the channel used for the transmission of information is that it belongs to a given set of memoryless classical-quantum channels. Our approach is based on a universal classical approximation of the quantum relative entropy which in turn relies on a universal hypothesis testing result.
Two kinds of channels are considered: 1) discrete-time channel,vith additive noise, and 2) Poisson and white Gaussian (i.e., continuous-time) channels. For the type 1) channel there are given some sufficient condition...
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Two kinds of channels are considered: 1) discrete-time channel,vith additive noise, and 2) Poisson and white Gaussian (i.e., continuous-time) channels. For the type 1) channel there are given some sufficient conditions when the Shannon and identification capacities coincide. It is shown that the identification capacity of Poisson and Gaussian channels without bandwidth constraint is infinite. Conversly, for a white Gaussian channel with bandwidth -constraint, the identification capacity coincides with the Shannon capacity.
In this paper, we propose a systematic low density generator matrix (LDGM) code ensemble, which is defined by the Bernoulli process. We prove that, under maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, the proposed ensemble can ach...
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In this paper, we propose a systematic low density generator matrix (LDGM) code ensemble, which is defined by the Bernoulli process. We prove that, under maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, the proposed ensemble can achieve the capacity of binary-input output symmetric (BIOS) memoryless channels in terms of bit error rate (BER). The proof technique reveals a new mechanism, different from lowering down frame error rate (FER), that the BER can be lowered down by assigning light codeword vectors to light information vectors. The finite length performance is analyzed by deriving an upper bound and a lower bound, both of which are shown to be tight in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region. To improve the waterfall performance, we construct the systematic convolutional LDGM (SysConv-LDGM) codes by a random splitting process. The SysConv-LDGM codes are easily configurable in the sense that any rational code rate can be realized without complex optimization. As a universal construction, the main advantage of the SysConv-LDGM codes is their near-capacity performance in the waterfall region and predictable performance in the error-floor region that can be lowered down to any target as required by increasing the density of the uncoupled LDGM codes. Numerical results are also provided to verify our analysis.
Two strong converses are obtained for an abstract alphabet stationary ergodic source coded relative to an appropriate fidelity criterion. It is shown that given a distortion rate point (D, R), which lies below the rat...
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Two strong converses are obtained for an abstract alphabet stationary ergodic source coded relative to an appropriate fidelity criterion. It is shown that given a distortion rate point (D, R), which lies below the rate distortion curve, 1) block codes that operate at rate level R must encode sample source blocks at a rate exceeding D with probability tending to one as block length tends to infinity, and 2) variable-rate codes that operate at distortion level D must encode sample source blocks at a rate exceeding R with probability tending to one as block length tends to infinity. The previously known weak converses guarantee only that the indicated probabilities remain bounded away from zero as block length tends to infinity. The proofs of the strong converses involve sample converses in source coding theory that are presented in a companion paper.
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