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We establish mathematical bounds on the chain, ABCD and immittance matrices of a multiconductor transmission line, based on the Telegrapher's equation. Closed-form expressions for those matrices are also presented. Existing results that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Daniel Selvaratnam , Alessio Moreschini , Amritam Das , Thomas Parisini , Henrik Sandberg

Tries are among the most versatile and widely used data structures on words. They are pertinent to the (internal) structure of (stored) words and several splitting procedures used in diverse contexts ranging from document taxonomy to IP…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-20 Kevin Leckey , Ralph Neininger , Wojciech Szpankowski

We consider the semantic rate-distortion problem motivated by task-oriented video compression. The semantic information corresponding to the task, which is not observable to the encoder, shows impacts on the observations through a joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Tao Guo , Yizhu Wang , Jie Han , Huihui Wu , Bo Bai , Wei Han

In this paper, we provide three applications for $f$-divergences: (i) we introduce Sanov's upper bound on the tail probability of the sum of independent random variables based on super-modular $f$-divergence and show that our generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Saeed Masiha , Amin Gohari , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee

We consider the problem to transport resources/mass while abiding by constraints on the flow through constrictions along their path between specified terminal distributions. Constrictions, conceptualized as toll stations at specified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Anqi Dong , Arthur Stephanovitch , Tryphon T. Georgiou

This paper studies limit theorems for Markov Chains with general state space under conditions which imply subgeometric ergodicity. We obtain a central limit theorem and moderate deviation principles for additive not necessarily bounded…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Randal Douc , Arnaud Guillin , Eric Moulines

In this paper we study the redundancy of Huffman codes. In particular, we consider sources for which the probability of one of the source symbols is known. We prove a conjecture of Ye and Yeung regarding the upper bound on the redundancy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Soheil Mohajer , Payam Pakzad , Ali Kakhbod

A conjectural expression of the asymptotic gap between the rate-distortion function of an arbitrary generalized Gaussian multiterminal source coding system and that of its centralized counterpart in the high-resolution regime is proposed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Li Xie , Xiaolan Tu , Siyao Zhou , Jun Chen

This paper studies a variant of the rate-distortion problem motivated by task-oriented semantic communication and distributed learning systems, where $M$ correlated sources are independently encoded for a central decoder. The decoder has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang

In communication field, an important issue is to group users and base stations to as many as possible subnetworks satisfying certain interference constraints. These problems are usually formulated as a graph partition problems which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Chicheng Ma , Yucong Tang , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan , Bo Bai

The Shannon lower bound has been the subject of several important contributions by Berger. This paper surveys Shannon bounds on rate-distortion problems under mean-squared error distortion with a particular emphasis on Berger's techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Michael Gastpar , Erixhen Sula

In this fourth part of our multi-part papers, classes of interference networks with a sequence of less-noisy receivers are identified for which a successive decoding scheme achieve the sum-rate capacity. First, the two-receiver networks are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Reza K. Farsani

This paper originally showed a lower bound on mixing time for a non-reversible Markov chain in terms of its largest non-trivial eigenvalue, and used this to re-derive some generalizations of results of Fan Chung. However, the paper has been…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ravi Montenegro

The spectral gap of a Markov chain can be bounded by the spectral gaps of constituent "restriction" chains and a "projection" chain, and the strength of such a bound is the content of various decomposition theorems. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Sarah Miracle , Amanda Pascoe Streib , Noah Streib

Network calculus is often used to prove delay bounds in deterministic networks, using arrival and service curves. We consider a FIFO system that offers a rate-latency service curve and where packet transmission occurs at line rate without…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Ehsan Mohammadpour , Elena Stai , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

This paper studies a wireless network consisting of multiple transmitter-receiver pairs where interference is treated as noise. Previously, the throughput region of such networks was characterized for either one time slot or an infinite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yirui Cong , Xiangyun Zhou , Rodney A. Kennedy

In nonadaptive group testing, the main research objective is to design an efficient algorithm to identify a set of up to $t$ positive elements among $n$ samples with as few tests as possible. Disjunct matrices and separable matrices are two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Bingchen Qian , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge

We study Markov processes conditioned so that their local time must grow slower than a prescribed function. Building upon recent work on Brownian motion with constrained local time in [5] and [33], we study transience and recurrence for a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Adam Barker

Upper bounds are derived on the total variation distance between the invariant distributions of two stochastic matrices differing on a subset W of rows. Such bounds depend on three parameters: the mixing time and the minimal expected…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani

The effect of perturbations of parameters for uniquely convergent imprecise Markov chains is studied. We provide the maximal distance between the distributions of original and perturbed chain and maximal degree of imprecision, given the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Damjan Škulj