• DocumentCode
    1174850
  • Title

    Geometric characterization of capacity-constraint function

  • Author

    Nakagawa, Kenji ; Kanaya, Fumio

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Transmission Syst. Lab., Kanagawa, Japan
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    892
  • Lastpage
    895
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.32168
  • Filename
    32168