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Capacity and Normalized Optimal Detection Error in Gaussian Channels

Information Theory 2017-05-02 v2 math.IT

Abstract

For vector Gaussian channels, a precise differential connection between channel capacity and a quantity termed normalized optimal detection error (NODE) is presented. Then, this C-NODE relationship is extended to continuous-time Gaussian channels drawing on a waterfilling characterization recently found for the capacity of continuous-time linear time-varying channels. In the latter case, the C-NODE relationship becomes asymptotic in nature. In either case, the C-NODE relationship is compared with the I-MMSE relationship due to Guo et al. connecting mutual information in Gaussian channels with the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) of estimation theory.

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@article{arxiv.1701.05523,
  title  = {Capacity and Normalized Optimal Detection Error in Gaussian Channels},
  author = {Edwin Hammerich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.05523},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures; text revised

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