Information-theoretic foundations of mismatched decoding

J Scarlett, AG i Fàbregas… - … and Trends® in …, 2020 - nowpublishers.com
Shannon's channel coding theorem characterizes the maximal rate of information that can
be reliably transmitted over a communication channel when optimal encoding and decoding …

Mismatched decoding: Error exponents, second-order rates and saddlepoint approximations

J Scarlett, A Martinez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of channel coding with a given (possibly suboptimal)
maximum-metric decoding rule. A cost-constrained random-coding ensemble with multiple …

On achievable rates and error exponents for channels with mismatched decoding

A Somekh-Baruch - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of characterizing achievable rates and error exponents for discrete memoryless
channels with mismatched decoding is addressed. A mismatched cognitive multiple-access …

A single-letter upper bound to the mismatch capacity

EA Kangarshahi, AG i Fàbregas - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We derive a single-letter upper bound to the mismatched-decoding capacity for discrete
memoryless channels. The bound is expressed as the mutual information of a transformation …

A Toolbox for Refined Information-Theoretic Analyses

N Merhav, N Weinberger - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2025 - nowpublishers.com
This monograph offers a toolbox of mathematical techniques that have been effective and
widely applicable in informationtheoretic analyses. The first tool is a generalization of the …

A sphere-packing error exponent for mismatched decoding

EA Kangarshahi, AG i Fàbregas - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We derive a sphere-packing error exponent for coded transmission over discrete
memoryless channels with a fixed decoding metric. By studying the error probability of the …

Upper bounds on the mismatched reliability function and capacity using a genie receiver

A Somekh-Baruch - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a novel framework for proving converse theorems for channel coding, which is
based on the analysis technique of multicast transmission with an additional auxiliary …

[PDF][PDF] Reliable communication under mismatched decoding

JM Scarlett - 2014 - itc.upf.edu
Abstract Information-theoretic studies of channel coding typically seek to characterize the
performance of coded communication systems when the encoder and decoder can be …

A single-letter upper bound on the mismatch capacity via a multicasting approach

A Somekh-Baruch - 2020 IEEE Information Theory Workshop …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a new analysis technique that we use to derive a single-letter upper bound on
the mismatch capacity of a stationary point-to-point memoryless channel with decoding …

Robust multicasting and an upper bound on the mismatch capacity of the DMC

A Somekh-Baruch - 2021 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We revisit the multicasting approach to the analysis of converse bounds that we recently
introduced, and present a refined proof technique for upper bounding the mismatch capacity …