| dc.contributor.author | Goyal, Vivek K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitter, Sanjoy K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Varshney, Lav Raj | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-17T21:42:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-12-17T21:42:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-09 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4244-5870-7 | |
| dc.identifier.other | INSPEC Accession Number: 11135176 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60318 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. Making use of results in finite block-length channel coding, we determine sequences of block-lengths that optimize transmission volume communicated at fixed maximum message error probabilities. A dynamic programming formulation is used to show that channel state feedback does not improve performance. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant 0729069) (Grant 0325774) | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ALLERTON.2009.5394908 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
| dc.source | IEEE | en_US |
| dc.title | Channels that die | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Varshney, L.R., S.K. Mitter, and V.K. Goyal. “Channels that die.” Communication, Control, and Computing, 2009. Allerton 2009. 47th Annual Allerton Conference on. 2009. 566-573. © 2009, IEEE | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.approver | Goyal, Vivek K. | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Goyal, Vivek K. | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Mitter, Sanjoy K. | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Varshney, Lav Raj | |
| dc.relation.journal | Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper | en_US |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Varshney, Lav R.; Mitter, Sanjoy K.; Goyal, Vivek K. | en |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8619-1295 | |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete | |
