TY - GEN
T1 - On the capacity of memoryless adversary
AU - Mazumdar, Arya
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this paper, we study a model of communication under adversarial noise. In this model, the adversary makes online decisions on whether to corrupt a transmitted bit based on only the value of that bit. Like the usual binary symmetric channel of information theory or the fully adversarial channel of combinatorial coding theory, the adversary can, with high probability, introduce at most a given fraction of error. It is shown that, the capacity (maximum rate of reliable information transfer) of such memoryless adversary is strictly below that of the binary symmetric channel. We give new upper bound on the capacity of such channel - the tightness of this upper bound remains an open question. The main component of our proof is the careful examination of error-correcting properties of a code with skewed distance distribution.
AB - In this paper, we study a model of communication under adversarial noise. In this model, the adversary makes online decisions on whether to corrupt a transmitted bit based on only the value of that bit. Like the usual binary symmetric channel of information theory or the fully adversarial channel of combinatorial coding theory, the adversary can, with high probability, introduce at most a given fraction of error. It is shown that, the capacity (maximum rate of reliable information transfer) of such memoryless adversary is strictly below that of the binary symmetric channel. We give new upper bound on the capacity of such channel - the tightness of this upper bound remains an open question. The main component of our proof is the careful examination of error-correcting properties of a code with skewed distance distribution.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875358
DO - 10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875358
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906545665
SN - 9781479951864
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
SP - 2869
EP - 2873
BT - 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2014
Y2 - 29 June 2014 through 4 July 2014
ER -