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
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