In this paper, Exponential Power (EP) model is proposed to analyze the software reliability data and the present work is an attempt to represent that the model is as software reliability model. The approximate MLE using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method and the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are used to estimate the parameters of the EP model. A procedure is developed to estimate ...

In this paper, the sphere packing bound of Fano, Shannon, Gallager and Berlekamp and the zero-rate bound of Berlekamp are extended to general classical-quantum channels. The upper bound for the reliability function obtained from the sphere packing coincides at high rates, for the case of pure state channels, with a lower bound derived by Burnashev and Holevo [21]. Thus, for pure state channels,...