Title :
How many information bits does a decoder need about the channel statistics?
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
fDate :
9/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We investigate the minimum amount of side information about the channel statistics that must be provided to the decoder in order to guarantee reliable communication in the random coding sense, for certain classes of channels
Keywords :
channel coding; decoding; statistical analysis; telecommunication network reliability; channel statistics; decoder; information bits; random coding; reliable communication; side information; Block codes; Entropy; Error probability; Information theory; Maintenance; Maximum likelihood decoding; Memoryless systems; Probability distribution; Statistical distributions; Statistics;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
