Title :
Bounds for General Transmission Systems
Author :
Higgs, Russell John
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Math. Sci., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
We show that the codebook of every general transmission system can also be regarded as a classical code in a natural way. Consequently, using the Hamming metric, bounds on the cardinality of the codebooks of transmission systems can be obtained directly from classical coding theory.
Keywords :
Hamming codes; encoding; Hamming metric; cardinality; classical coding theory; codebook; general transmission systems; Information theory; Measurement; Network coding; Coding theory; general transmission system; network code;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.2010.2081050
