We study connections among the ADM mass, positive harmonic functions tending to zero at infinity, and capacity of boundary asymptotically flat $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. First we give new formulae that detect mass via functions. Then derive a family monotone quantities geometric inequalities if underlying manifold has simple topology. As an immediate application, observe s...

Speech perception engages both auditory and visual modalities. Limitations of traditional accuracy-only approaches in the investigation of audiovisual speech perception have motivated the use of new methodologies. In an audiovisual speech identification task, we utilized capacity (Townsend and Nozawa, 1995), a dynamic measure of efficiency, to quantify audiovisual integration. Capacity was used...

This paper derives upper and lower bounds on the capacity of the multipleinput single-output free-space optical intensity channel with signal-independent additive Gaussian noise subject to both an average-intensity and a peak-intensity constraint. In the limit where the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) tends to infinity, the asymptotic capacity is specified, while in the limit where the SNR tends to...

A common practice when analyzing systems using multiple antennas at both ends is to focus on the multipath properties and normalize the SNR out of the channel matrix. This paper studies the relationship between the signal strength and multipath richness using indoor measurements taken at the Brigham Young University campus. It is found that the SNR and the multipath richness can be strongly cor...

Many communications systems employ training, i.e., the transmission of known signals, so that the channel parameters may be learned at the receiver. This has a dual effect: too little training and the channel is improperly learned, too much training and there is no time left for data transmission before the channel changes. In this paper we use an information-theoretic approach to find the opti...

ABSTRACT Many communications systems employ training, i.e., the transmission of known signals, so that the channel parameters may be learned at the receiver. This has a dual effect: too little training and the channel is improperly learned, too much training and there is no time left for data transmission before the channel changes. In this paper we use an information-theoretic approach to find...

In this paper, we have analyzed the channel capacity by using the maximal-ratio combing (MRC) diversity scheme for communication systems operating over a composite fading environment modeled by the Generalized-K distribution at the receiver. For the Generalized-K fading channel with arbitrary values for small and large scale fading parameters, we have derived a closed-form expression for the mo...

Two design parameters, SNR and correlation, are key factors for enhancing channel capacity in MIMO systems. Achieving high SNR and low correlation is desirable in antenna design. This paper discusses the relation between channel capacity and these two parameters, and presents simple formulas of this relation for propagation channels and antenna coupling of mobile terminals. According to these g...

Cooperative transmission is an emerging communication technology that takes advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels. In cooperative transmission, the use of relays can create a virtual antenna array so that multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) techniques can be employed. Most existing work in this area has focused on the situation in which there are a small number of sources and...