Title : 
Geometric characterization of capacity-constraint function
         
        
            Author : 
Nakagawa, Kenji ; Kanaya, Fumio
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
NTT Transmission Syst. Lab., Kanagawa, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Maximizing the mutual information under a linear input constraint is considered from a geometric point of view. Assuming a suitable regularity condition on the channel matrix, it is found that the probability distribution (PD) equidistant from the row PDs of the channel matrix plays an important role, and the maximum is achieved by the projection of that PD onto the set of PDs satisfying the constraint. The PD attaining the capacity-constraint function is obtained by using Lagrange´s method of indeterminate coefficients at most (m-2) times
         
        
            Keywords : 
channel capacity; information theory; probability; Lagrange´s method; capacity-constraint function; channel matrix; discrete memoryless channel; geometric characterisation; indeterminate coefficients; linear input constraint; probability distribution; regularity condition; Associate members; Lagrangian functions; Memoryless systems; Mutual information; Probability distribution;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on