More on the Reliability Function of the BSC

An improved upper bound is given for the maximum attainable exponent of the error probability of maxlikelihood decoding on a binary symmetric channel (the reliability function of the channel). Disciplines Computer Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics Comments Suggested Citation: Barg, A. and A. McGregor. (2003). "More on the reliability function of the BSC." Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Theory Yokohama, Japan. June 29-July 4, 2003. ©2003 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. This conference paper is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/cis_papers/443 ISlT 2003, Yokohama, Japan, June 29 -July 4,2003 More on the reliability function of the BSC Alexander Barg DIMACS, Rutgers U., and DEAS, Harvard e-mail: abargaieee . org Abstract An improved upper bound is given for the maximum attainable exponent of the error probability of max-likelihood decoding on a binary symmetric channel (the reliability function of the channel). An improved upper bound is given for the maximum attainable exponent of the error probability of max-likelihood decoding on a binary symmetric channel (the reliability function of the channel).