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A New Sphere-Packing Bound for Maximal Error Exponent for Multiple-Access Channels

Information Theory 2008-03-27 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In this work, a new lower bound for the maximal error probability of a two-user discrete memoryless (DM) multiple-access channel (MAC) is derived. This is the first bound of this type that explicitly imposes independence of the users' input distributions (conditioned on the time-sharing auxiliary variable) and thus results in a tighter sphere-packing exponent when compared to the tightest known exponent derived by Haroutunian.

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@article{arxiv.0803.3645,
  title  = {A New Sphere-Packing Bound for Maximal Error Exponent for Multiple-Access Channels},
  author = {Ali Nazari and Sandeep Pradhan and Achilleas Anastasopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.3645},
  year   = {2008}
}
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