Improved Bounds on the Number of Support Points of the Capacity-Achieving Input for Amplitude Constrained Poisson Channels

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Hauptverfasser: Barletta, Luca, Dytso, Alex, Shamai, Shlomo
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author Barletta, Luca
Dytso, Alex
Shamai, Shlomo
author_facet Barletta, Luca
Dytso, Alex
Shamai, Shlomo
contents This work considers a discrete-time Poisson noise channel with an input amplitude constraint $\mathsf{A}$ and a dark current parameter $λ$. It is known that the capacity-achieving distribution for this channel is discrete with finitely many points. Recently, for $λ=0$, a lower bound of order $\sqrt{\mathsf{A}}$ and an upper bound of order $\mathsf{A} \log^2(\mathsf{A})$ have been demonstrated on the cardinality of the support of the optimal input distribution. In this work, we improve these results in several ways. First, we provide upper and lower bounds that hold for non-zero dark current. Second, we produce a sharper upper bound with a far simpler technique. In particular, for $λ=0$, we sharpen the upper bound from the order of $\mathsf{A} \log^2(\mathsf{A})$ to the order of $\mathsf{A}$. Finally, some other additional information about the location of the support is provided.
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spellingShingle Improved Bounds on the Number of Support Points of the Capacity-Achieving Input for Amplitude Constrained Poisson Channels
Barletta, Luca
Dytso, Alex
Shamai, Shlomo
Information Theory
This work considers a discrete-time Poisson noise channel with an input amplitude constraint $\mathsf{A}$ and a dark current parameter $λ$. It is known that the capacity-achieving distribution for this channel is discrete with finitely many points. Recently, for $λ=0$, a lower bound of order $\sqrt{\mathsf{A}}$ and an upper bound of order $\mathsf{A} \log^2(\mathsf{A})$ have been demonstrated on the cardinality of the support of the optimal input distribution. In this work, we improve these results in several ways. First, we provide upper and lower bounds that hold for non-zero dark current. Second, we produce a sharper upper bound with a far simpler technique. In particular, for $λ=0$, we sharpen the upper bound from the order of $\mathsf{A} \log^2(\mathsf{A})$ to the order of $\mathsf{A}$. Finally, some other additional information about the location of the support is provided.
title Improved Bounds on the Number of Support Points of the Capacity-Achieving Input for Amplitude Constrained Poisson Channels
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05045