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A Counter-Example to the Mismatched Decoding Converse for Binary-Input Discrete Memoryless Channels

Information Theory 2015-08-11 v1 math.IT

Abstract

This paper studies the mismatched decoding problem for binary-input discrete memoryless channels. An example is provided for which an achievable rate based on superposition coding exceeds the LM rate (Hui, 1983; Csisz\'ar-K\"orner, 1981), thus providing a counter-example to a previously reported converse result (Balakirsky, 1995). Both numerical evaluations and theoretical results are used in establishing this claim.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02374,
  title  = {A Counter-Example to the Mismatched Decoding Converse for Binary-Input Discrete Memoryless Channels},
  author = {Jonathan Scarlett and Anelia Somekh-Baruch and Alfonso Martinez and Albert Guillén i Fàbregas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02374},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Extended version of paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; rate derivation and numerical algorithms included in appendices

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