Feedback does not increase the capacity of discrete channels with additive noise

  • Authors:
  • F. Alajaji

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD

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

Quantified Score

Hi-index 755.02

Visualization

Abstract

We consider discrete-time finite alphabet channels with additive random noise. We show that output feedback does not increase the capacity of such channels. This result holds in the most general case; i.e., for arbitrary additive noise processes