Channels that die

Given the possibility of communication systems failing catastrophically, we investigate limits to communicating over channels that fail at random times. These channels are finite-state semi-Markov channels. We show that communication with arbitrarily small probability of error is not possible. Makin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Goyal, Vivek K., Mitter, Sanjoy K., Varshney, Lav Raj
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60318
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8619-1295