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Concavity of Mutual Information Rate for Input-Restricted Finite-State Memoryless Channels at High SNR

Information Theory 2010-07-28 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We consider a finite-state memoryless channel with i.i.d. channel state and the input Markov process supported on a mixing finite-type constraint. We discuss the asymptotic behavior of entropy rate of the output hidden Markov chain and deduce that the mutual information rate of such a channel is concave with respect to the parameters of the input Markov processes at high signal-to-noise ratio. In principle, the concavity result enables good numerical approximation of the maximum mutual information rate and capacity of such a channel.

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@article{arxiv.1007.4604,
  title  = {Concavity of Mutual Information Rate for Input-Restricted Finite-State Memoryless Channels at High SNR},
  author = {Guangyue Han and Brian Marcus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.4604},
  year   = {2010}
}

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26 pages