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Continuity of Channel Parameters and Operations under Various DMC Topologies

Information Theory 2018-05-23 v2 math.IT

Abstract

We study the continuity of many channel parameters and operations under various topologies on the space of equivalent discrete memoryless channels (DMC). We show that mutual information, channel capacity, Bhattacharyya parameter, probability of error of a fixed code, and optimal probability of error for a given code rate and blocklength, are continuous under various DMC topologies. We also show that channel operations such as sums, products, interpolations, and Ar{\i}kan-style transformations are continuous.

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@article{arxiv.1701.04466,
  title  = {Continuity of Channel Parameters and Operations under Various DMC Topologies},
  author = {Rajai Nasser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04466},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

31 pages. Submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory and in part to ISIT2017