2011 IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2011
DOI: 10.1109/itw.2011.6089481
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Communications overhead as the cost of constraints

Abstract: Abstract-This paper speculates on a perspective for studying overhead in communication systems that contrasts the traditional viewpoint that overhead is the "non-data" portion of transmissions. By viewing overhead as the cost of constraints imposed on a system, information-theoretic techniques can be used to obtain fundamental limits on overhead information, and multiple constraints lead to an intriguing chain rule for overhead. In principle, protocol overhead in practical implementations can then be benchmark… Show more

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“…The overhead cost in Theorem 4 is equal to f M P λ (P, W, α), which is increasing in the intermittency rate α, equals zero at α = 1, approaches infinity as α → ∞, and is decreasing in λ as can be seen from (11). The same conclusions as in Section (V-A) can be drawn.…”
Section: B Medium Packet Intermittent Communicationsupporting
confidence: 68%
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“…The overhead cost in Theorem 4 is equal to f M P λ (P, W, α), which is increasing in the intermittency rate α, equals zero at α = 1, approaches infinity as α → ∞, and is decreasing in λ as can be seen from (11). The same conclusions as in Section (V-A) can be drawn.…”
Section: B Medium Packet Intermittent Communicationsupporting
confidence: 68%
“…Proof: See [12]. The form of the achievable rate is reminiscent of communications overhead as the cost of constraints [11], where the constraint is the system's burstiness or intermittency, and the overhead cost is αh(1/α)/l. Note that the overhead cost is increasing in the intermittency rate α, is equal to zero at α = 1, and approaches infinity as α → ∞.…”
Section: A Small Packet Intermittent Communicationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The check Tag value is inserted in the unused frame of IP protocol to make no overhead on the communication channel [13].…”
Section: F Tag Insertionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Note that the capacity C 1 cannot be larger than 1, since the coefficients φ(·, ·) cannot be negative. The negative term in (25) can be interpreted as a lower bound on the communication overhead as the cost of intermittency in the context of [24].…”
Section: Thus We Havementioning
confidence: 99%