• DocumentCode
    3766043
  • Title

    Non-isomorphic distribution supports for calculating entropic vectors

  • Author

    Yunshu Liu;John MacLaren Walsh

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of ECE, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    634
  • Lastpage
    641
  • Abstract
    A 2N - 1 dimensional vector is said to be entropic if each of its entries can be regarded as the joint entropy of a particular subset of N discrete random variables. The explicit characterization of the closure of the region of entropic vectors Γ̅*N is unknown for N ≥ 4. A systematic approach is proposed to generate the list of non-isomorphic distribution supports for the purpose of calculating and optimizing entropic vectors. It is shown that a better understanding of the structure of the entropy region can be obtained by constructing inner bounds based on these supports. The constructed inner bounds based on different supports are compared both in full dimension and in a transformed three dimensional space of Csirmaz and Matúš.
  • Keywords
    "Entropy","Random variables","Channel coding","Cramer-Rao bounds","Labeling","Context","Network coding"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ALLERTON.2015.7447064
  • Filename
    7447064