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Capacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback

Information Theory 2009-09-29 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We establish that the feedback capacity of the trapdoor channel is the logarithm of the golden ratio and provide a simple communication scheme that achieves capacity. As part of the analysis, we formulate a class of dynamic programs that characterize capacities of unifilar finite-state channels. The trapdoor channel is an instance that admits a simple analytic solution.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0610047,
  title  = {Capacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback},
  author = {Haim Permuter and Paul Cuff and Benjamin Van Roy and Tsachy Weissman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0610047},
  year   = {2009}
}