• DocumentCode
    1553219
  • Title

    How many information bits does a decoder need about the channel statistics?

  • Author

    Merhav, Neri

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    9/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1707
  • Lastpage
    1714
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.623178
  • Filename
    623178