A Simple Converse of Burnashev's Reliability Function

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Berlin P., NAKİBOĞLU B., Rimoldi B., Telatar E. İ.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, cilt.55, sa.7, ss.3074-3080, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 55 Sayı: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/tit.2009.2021322
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.3074-3080
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Burnashev's error exponent, discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), feedback, reliability function, variable-length communication, NOISELESS FEEDBACK, ERROR EXPONENT, CHANNELS
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In a remarkable paper published in 1976, Burnashev determined the reliability function of variable-length block codes over discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) with feedback. Subsequently, an alternative achievability proof was obtained by Yamamoto and Itoh via a particularly simple and instructive scheme. Their idea is to alternate between a communication and a confirmation phase until the receiver detects the codeword used by the sender to acknowledge that the message is correct. We provide a converse that parallels the Yamamoto-Itoh achievability construction. Besides being simpler than the original, the proposed converse suggests that a communication and a confirmation phase are implicit in any scheme for which the probability of error decreases with the largest possible exponent. The proposed converse also makes it intuitively clear why the terms that appear in Burnashev's exponent are necessary.