Title :
Capacity per unit cost of a discrete memoryless channel
Author :
Abdel-Ghaffar, Khaled A. S.
Author_Institution :
California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
A necessary and sufficient condition for an input probability distribution to achieve the capacity per unit cost of a discrete memoryless channel is derived. This condition can be used to compute the capacity per unit cost as illustrated by examples.
Keywords :
information theory; probability; telecommunication channels; capacity per unit cost; discrete memoryless channel; information symbol communication; input probability distribution; transition probabilities;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19930096
