Why Do Block Length and Delay Behave Differently if Feedback Is Present?
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Publication:3604609
DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.920339zbMATH Open1328.94043arXivcs/0610138OpenAlexW2107543180MaRDI QIDQ3604609FDOQ3604609
Authors: Anant Sahai 
Publication date: 24 February 2009
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: For output-symmetric DMCs at even moderately high rates, fixed-block-length communication systems show no improvements in their error exponents with feedback. In this paper, we study systems with fixed end-to-end delay and show that feedback generally provides dramatic gains in the error exponents. A new upper bound (the uncertainty-focusing bound) is given on the probability of symbol error in a fixed-delay communication system with feedback. This bound turns out to have a similar form to Viterbi's bound used for the block error probability of convolutional codes as a function of the fixed constraint length. The uncertainty-focusing bound is shown to be asymptotically achievable with noiseless feedback for erasure channels as well as any output-symmetric DMC that has strictly positive zero-error capacity. Furthermore, it can be achieved in a delay-universal (anytime) fashion even if the feedback itself is delayed by a small amount. Finally, it is shown that for end-to-end delay, it is generally possible at high rates to beat the sphere-packing bound for general DMCs -- thereby providing a counterexample to a conjecture of Pinsker.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610138
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