Information theory tells us that if the rate of sending information across a noisy channel were above the capacity of that channel, then the transmission would necessarily be unreliable. For classical information sent over classical or quantum channels, one could, under certain conditions, make a stronger statement that the reliability of the transmission shall decay exponentially to zero with ...

It is known that perfect noiseless feedback can be used to improve the reliability of communication systems. We show how to make those gains robust to a noisy feedback link. We demonstrate that the Burnashev upper bound on the reliability function is achievable given any noisy feedback channel, as long as the desired rate of communication is close enough to capacity. We also demonstrate that Fo...

 Background: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties (validity and reliability) of the Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Methods: The Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test was constructed to assess sustained auditory attention using the meth...

This paper proposes an efficient cut set approach to enumerate the subsets cut groups (SCG) from apriori knowledge of minimal cutsets of a network. These SCG block a given amount of flow through the network despite the network being (s, t) connected and are being used to evaluate capacity related reliability (CRR) by employing any sum of disjoint product approach. For each minimal cutset and a ...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have gained considerable interest in expanding IEEE 802.11 networks to large-scale enterprise and community scenarios, primarily because its capability of providing wide-band ubiquitous network access to a significant number of users. However, the mesh nodes are typically limited in resources such as bandwidth, computation power and memory. Moreover, the shared wir...

2D color barcodes have been introduced to obtain larger storage capabilities than traditional black and white barcodes. Unfortunately, the data density of color barcodes is substantially limited by the redundancy needed for correcting errors, which are due not only to geometric but also to chromatic distortions introduced by the printing and scanning process. The higher the expected error rate,...

Modern DRAM modules are often equipped with hardware error correction capabilities, especially for DRAM deployed in large-scale data centers, as process technology scaling has increased the susceptibility of these devices to errors. To provide fast error detection and correction, error-correcting codes (ECC) are placed on an additional DRAM chip in a DRAM module. This additional chip expands th...

The use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) U-wrap to rehabilitate concrete beams has increased in popularity over the past few years. As such, many design codes and guidelines have been developed to enable designers to use of FRP for retrofitting reinforced concrete beams. FIB is the only guideline for design which presents a formula for torsional capacity of concrete beams streng...

The capacity and the reliability function as the peak constraint tends to zero are considered for a discrete-time memoryless channel with peak constrained inputs. Prelov and van der Meulen showed that under mild conditions the ratio of the capacity to the squared peak constraint converges to one-half the maximum eigenvalue of the Fisher information matrix and if the Fisher information matrix is...