Capacity and cutoff rate for Poisson-type channels

1 November 1980

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Vol. 26 (6) , 710-715
https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1980.1056262

Abstract

The capacity of a Poisson-type channel subject both to peak amplitude and average energy constraints is calculated, and its relation to the cutoff rate given by Snyder and Rhodes is determined in the "very noisy" case.

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