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We consider the problem of estimating an upper bound on the capacity of a memoryless channel with unknown channel law and continuous output alphabet. A novel data-driven algorithm is proposed that exploits the dual representation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Christian Häger , Erik Agrell

A new formulation of Stochastic Model Predictive Output Feedback Control is presented and analyzed as a translation of Stochastic Optimal Output Feedback Control into a receding horizon setting. This requires lifting the design into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Martin A Sehr , Robert R Bitmead

In this paper, we examine discrete memoryless Multiple Access Channels (MACs) with two-sided feedback in the presence of two correlated channel states that are correlated in the sense of Slepian-Wolf (SW). We find achievable rate region for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-17 Saeed Hajizadeh , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani

In this paper, we derive information-theoretic performance limits for three classes of two-user state-dependent discrete memoryless broadcast channels, with noncausal side-information at the encoder. The first class of channels comprises a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 K. G. Nagananda , Chandra R. Murthy , Shalinee Kishore

We present an alternative take on the recently popularized concept of `\textit{joint sensing and communications}', which focuses on using communication resources also for sensing. Here, we propose the opposite, where we utilize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman , Deniz Gündüz

The capacity of finite state channels (FSCs) has been established as the limit of a sequence of multi-letter expressions only and, despite tremendous effort, a corresponding finite-letter characterization remains unknown to date. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

Computing channel capacity is in general intractable because it is given by the limit of a sequence of optimization problems whose dimensionality grows to infinity. As a result, constant-sized characterizations of feedback or non-feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Eray Unsal Atay , Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran , Victoria Kostina

The fundamental limits of communication over state-dependent discrete memoryless channels with noiseless feedback are studied, under the assumption that the communicating parties are allowed to use variable-length coding schemes. Various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Carol Wang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We derive a new upper bound on the reliability function for channel coding over discrete memoryless channels. Our bounding technique relies on two main elements: (i) adding an auxiliary genie-receiver that reveals to the original receiver a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

This paper introduces an upper bound on the absolute difference between: (a) the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the sum of a finite number of independent and identically distributed random variables with finite absolute third…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Dadja Anade , Jean-Marie Gorce , Philippe Mary , Samir Perlaza

The impact of communication on decision-making systems has been extensively studied under the assumption of dedicated communication channels. We instead consider communicating through actions, where the message is embedded into the actions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Haotian Wu , Gongpu Chen , Deniz Gündüz

This paper deals with the multiplicative finite-field matrix channel, a discrete memoryless channel whose input and output are matrices (over a finite field) related by a multiplicative transfer matrix. The model considered here assumes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Roberto W. Nóbrega , Danilo Silva , Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho

We consider the problem of minimizing upper bounds and maximizing lower bounds on information rates of stationary and ergodic discrete-time channels with memory. The channels we consider can have a finite number of states, such as partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Parastoo Sadeghi , Pascal O. Vontobel , Ramtin Shams

We study reliable communication over finite-state channels (FSCs) using Reed--Muller (RM) codes. Building on recent symmetry-based analyses for memoryless channels, we show that a sequence of binary RM codes (with some random scrambling)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Henry D. Pfister , Navin Kashyap , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Galen Reeves

In this work we find the capacity of a compound finite-state channel with time-invariant deterministic feedback. The model we consider involves the use of fixed length block codes. Our achievability result includes a proof of the existence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Brooke Shrader , Haim Permuter

In this paper, the capacity region of the two-user linear deterministic (LD) interference channel with noisy output feedback (IC-NOF) is fully characterized. This result allows the identification of several asymmetric scenarios in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Victor Quintero , Samir M. Perlaza , Jean-Marie Gorce

In this technical report, the capacity region of the two-user linear deterministic (LD) interference channel with noisy output feedback (IC-NOF) is fully characterized. This result allows the identification of several asymmetric scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Victor Quintero , Samir M. Perlaza , Jean-Marie Gorce

This paper investigates the asymptotic expansion for the maximum rate of fixed-length codes over a parallel Gaussian channel with feedback under the following setting: A peak power constraint is imposed on every transmitted codeword, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a modeling framework for autonomous decision making under uncertainty and imperfect sensing, e.g. robot manipulation and self-driving cars. However, optimal control of POMDPs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Rangoli Sharan , Joel W. Burdick

In this paper, we consider some long-standing problems in communication systems with access to noisy feedback. We introduce a new notion, the residual directed information, to capture the effective information flow (i.e. mutual information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Chong Li , Nicola Elia