In this paper, a generalization of the traditional point-to-point to communication setup, which is named as “reliable communications with asymmetric codebooks”, is proposed. Under the assumption of independent identically distributed (i.i.d) encoder codewords, it is proven that the operational capacity of the system is equal to the information capacity of the system, which is given by maxp(x) I...

This paper presents, first, a formal exploration of the relationships between information (statistically defined), statistical hypothesis testing, the use of hypothesis testing in reverse as an investigative tool, channel capacity in a communication system, uncertainty, the concept of entropy in thermodynamics, and Bayes’ theorem. This exercise brings out the close mathematical interrelationshi...

Department of Applied Economics and Management and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cornell University Abstract The two basic criteria used by the North-American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) to measure reliability are 1) “Adequacy” (to ensure that the installed capacity of the supply system is sufficient to meet projected future loads and limit the Loss of Load Expectation (...