Channels with block interference

  • Authors:
  • R. McEliece;W. Stark

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A new class of channel models with memory is presented in order to study various kinds of interference phenomena. It is shown, among other things, that when all other parameters are held fixed, channel capacityCis an {em increasing} function of the memory length, while the cutoff rateR_{0}generally is a {em decreasing} function. Calculations with various explicit coding schemes indicate thatCis better thanR_{0}as a performance measure for these channel models. As a partial resolution of thisCversusR_{0}paradox, the conjecture is offered thatR_{0}is more properly a measure of coding delay rather than of coding complexity.