@inproceedings{6e28ac3d91804d1cb9b682f5138ef02c,
title = "Channels that die",
abstract = "Given the possibility of communication systems failing catastrophically, we investigate limits to communicating over channels that fail at random times. These channels are finitestate semi-Markov channels. We show that communication with arbitrarily small probability of error is not possible. Making use of results in finite blocklength channel coding, we determine sequences of blocklengths that optimize transmission volume communicated at fixed maximum message error probabilities. A dynamic programming formulation is used to show that channel state feedback does not improve performance.",
author = "Varshney, {Lav R.} and Mitter, {Sanjoy K.} and Goyal, {Vivek K.}",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 2009 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2009 ; Conference date: 30-09-2009 Through 02-10-2009",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ALLERTON.2009.5394908",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424458714",
series = "2009 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2009",
pages = "566--573",
booktitle = "2009 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2009",
}