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Communication systems are traditionally designed to have tight transmitter-receiver synchronization. This requirement has negligible overhead in the high-SNR regime. However, in many applications, such as wireless sensor networks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Yu-Chih Huang , Urs Niesen , Piyush Gupta

In this work, the problem of signal parameter estimation from measurements acquired by a low-complexity analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with $1$-bit output resolution and an unknown quantization threshold is considered. Single-comparator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Manuel S. Stein , Shahar Bar , Josef A. Nossek , Joseph Tabrikian

In \cite{Chandar2008}, Chandar et al studied a problem of sequential frame synchronization for a frame transmitted randomly and uniformly among $A$ slots. For a discrete memory-less channel (DMC), they showed that the frame length $N$ must…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-24 R. M. Sundaram , Devendra Jalihal , Venkatesh Ramaiyan

The memoryless noncoherent single-input single-output (SISO) Rayleigh-fading channel is considered. Closed-form expressions for the mutual information between the output and the input of this channel when the input magnitude distribution is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Sebastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove , Ninoslav Marina , Geir E. Oien

This paper investigates the achievable information rate of phase-shift keying (PSK) over frequency non-selective Rayleigh fading channels without channel state information (CSI). The fading process exhibits general temporal correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Wenyi Zhang , J. Nicholas Laneman

The capacity of peak-power limited, single-antenna, non-coherent, flat-fading channels with memory is considered. The emphasis is on the capacity pre-log, i.e., on the limiting ratio of channel capacity to the logarithm of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Tobias Koch , Amos Lapidoth

This paper derives upper and lower bounds on the capacity of the multiple-input single-output free-space optical intensity channel with signal-independent additive Gaussian noise subject to both an average-intensity and a peak-intensity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Stefan M. Moser , Ligong Wang , Michèle Wigger

With bandwidths on the order of a gigahertz in emerging wireless systems, high-resolution analog-to-digital convertors (ADCs) become a power consumption bottleneck. One solution is to employ low resolution one-bit ADCs. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Jianhua Mo , Robert W. Heath

An analog source is to be transmitted across a Gaussian channel in more than one channel use per source symbol. This paper derives a lower bound on the asymptotic mean squared error for a strategy that consists of repeatedly quantizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marius Kleiner , Bixio Rimoldi

This paper, mostly tutorial in nature, deals with the problem of characterizing the capacity of fading channels in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. We focus on the practically relevant noncoherent setting, where neither…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Giuseppe Durisi , Helmut Bölcskei

Quantized neural networks can be viewed as a chain of noisy channels, where rounding in each layer reduces capacity as bit-width shrinks; the floating-point (FP) checkpoint sets the maximum input rate. We track capacity dynamics as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sergey Salishev , Ian Akhremchik

This paper addresses the design of multi-antenna precoding strategies, considering hardware limitations such as low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs), which necessitate the quantization of transmitted signals. The typical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Xiuxiu Ma , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

The minimum average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) per bit required for error-free transmission over a fading channel is derived, and is shown to be equal to that of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, which is $-1.6$ dB.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 K. Vasudevan

Channel output quantization plays a vital role in high-speed emerging memories such as the spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM), where high-precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are not applicable. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Zhen Mei , Kui Cai , Long Shi

In this paper, Gaussian two-way channel with uniform output quantization is studied. For Gaussian inputs, the optimum uniform finite-level quantizer is determined numerically for different values of Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). The two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Ershad Banijamali

Motivated by recent high bandwidth communication systems, Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) channels with 1-bit quantized output are considered under an average-power-constrained continuous input. While the exact capacity is difficult to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Radha Krishna Ganti , Andrew Thangaraj , Arijit Mondal

Wireless fading channels suffer from both channel fadings and Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). As a result, it is impossible for fading channels to support a constant rate data stream without using buffers. In this paper, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Yunquan Dong , Pingyi Fan

A fading broadcast channel is considered where the transmitter employs two antennas and each of the two receivers employs a single receive antenna. It is demonstrated that even if the realization of the fading is precisely known to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Amos Lapidoth , Shlomo Shamai , Michele Wigger

Discrete-time Rayleigh fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels are considered, with no channel state information at the transmitter and receiver. The fading is assumed to be correlated in time and independent from antenna to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Vignesh Sethuraman , Ligong Wang , Bruce Hajek , Amos Lapidoth

A general quantum noisy channel is analyzed, wherein the transmitted qubits may experience symmetry-breaking decoherence, along with memory effects. We find the optimal basis not to be fully entangled, but a combination of factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Goren Gordon , Gershon Kurizki