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Capacity of the Time-Varying Channel by Way of Pseudodifferential Operators

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Brendan Farrell, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Wed, May 17 2006, 12:10PM

Channel capacity is one of the fundamental ideas of information theory. I will introduce this concept for the time-invariant channel, and discuss difficulties involved in moving to the time-varying channel. I will introduce pseudodifferential operators, and show how they have brought us to within several steps of first, general capacity results for the time-varying channel.