Abstract
A key result of classical information theory states that if the rate of a randomly generated codebook is less than the mutual information between the channel's input and output, then the probability that that codebook has negligible error goes to one as the blocklength goes to infinity. In an attempt to bridge the gap between the probabilistic world of classical information theory and the combinatorial world of zero-error information theory, this work derives necessary and sufficient conditions on the rate so that the probability that a randomly generated codebook operated under list decoding (for any fixed list size) has zero error probability goes to one as the blocklength goes to infinity. Furthermore, this work extends the classical birthday problem to an information-theoretic setting, which results in the definition of a 'noisy' counterpart of Rényi entropy, analogous to how mutual information can be considered a noisy counterpart of Shannon entropy.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 9500216 |
Pages (from-to) | 5791-5803 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
Volume | 67 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received March 3, 2020; revised April 3, 2021; accepted July 15, 2021. Date of publication July 28, 2021; date of current version August 25, 2021. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 1321129, Grant 1527524, and Grant 1526771. This article was presented in part at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium of Information Theory. (Corresponding author: Parham Noorzad.) Parham Noorzad was with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA. He is now with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121 USA (e-mail: parham.n@outlook.com).
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Keywords
- Birthday problem
- Körner graph entropy
- Motzkin-Straus theorem
- Rényi entropy
- collision probability
- hash function
- hypergraph
- list decoding
- random coding
- zero-error channel capacity