Event
CCSP Seminar: Anelia Somekh-Baruch, "A Single-Letter Upper Bound on the Mismatch Capacity"
Thursday, March 25, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Online presentation
Zitan Chen
chenztan@umd.edu
http://ccsp.ece.umd.edu/
Communication, Control and Signal Processing Seminar
A Single-Letter Upper Bound on the Mismatch Capacity
Anelia Somekh-Baruch
Bar-Ilan University
Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99545688468
Abstract
The question of finding a single-letter formula for the mismatch capacity, which is the supremum of achievable rates of reliable communication when the receiver uses a sub-optimal decoding rule, has been a long standing open problem. This question has many applications in communications, Information-Theory, and Computer Science. For example, the zero-error capacity of a channel is a special case of mismatch capacity.
In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the problem, and introduce a new bounding technique called the "multicasting approach", which straightforwardly yields single-letter upper bounds on the mismatch capacity of stationary memoryless channels. I will also present equivalence classes of isomorphic channel-metric pairs that share the same mismatch capacity, and a sufficient condition for the tightness of the bound for the entire equivalence class.
