Feedback Does Not Increase the Capacity of Discrete Channels with Additive Noise

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 546-549

  Alajaji, Fady ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

additive noise; capacity; discrete channels with memory; output feedback; Shannon theory

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSMITTERS;

ADDITIVE NOISE; DISCRETE TIME FINITE ALPHABET CHANNELS; OUTPUT FEEDBACK; SHANNON THEORY;

CHANNEL CAPACITY;

EID: 0029272071     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.370168     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. F. Alajaji and T. Fuja, “A communication channel modeled by the spread of disease,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Information Theory (San Antonio, TX, Jan. 1993).
2. —, “Effect of feedback on the capacity of discrete additive channels with memory,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Information Theory (Trondheim, Norway, June 1994).
3. F. Alajaji, “New results on the analysis of discrete communication channels with memory,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elec. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Aug. 1994.
4. T. M. Cover and S. Pombra, “Gaussian feedback capacity,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 35, pp. 37–43, 1989.
5. E. N. Gilben, “Capacity of hurst-noise channels,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 39, pp. 1253–1265, 1960.
6. R. M. Gray and D. S. Omstein, “Block coding for discrete stationary d̄-continuous noisy channels,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. IT-25, pp. 292–306, 1979.
7. J. C. Kieffer, “A general formula for the capacity of stationary nonanticipatory channels,” Inform. Contr., vol. 26, pp. 381–391, 1974.
8. K. R. Parthasarathy, “Effective entropy rate and transmission of information through channels with additive random noise,” Sankhya, vol. A(25), pp. 75–84, 1963.
9. C. E. Shannon, “The zero-error capacity of a noisy channel,” IRE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. IT-2, pp. 8–19, 1956.
10. S. Verdú and T. S. Han, “A general formula for channel capacity,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 40, pp. 1147–1157, July 1994.