Negligible Cooperation: Contrasting the Maximaland Average-Error Cases
Abstract
In communication networks, cooperative strategies are coding schemes where network nodes work together to improve performance metrics such as the total rate delivered across the network. This work studies encoder cooperation in the setting of a discrete multiple access channel (MAC) with two encoders and a single decoder. A network node, here called the cooperation facilitator (CF), that is connected to both encoders via rate-limited links, enables the cooperation strategy. Previous work by the authors presents two classes of MACs: (i) one class where the average-error sum-capacity has an infinite derivative in the limit where CF output link capacities approach zero, and (ii) a second class of MACs where the maximal-error sum-capacity is not continuous at the point where the output link capacities of the CF equal zero. This work contrasts the power of the CF in the maximal- and average-error cases, showing that a constant number of bits communicated over the CF output link can yield a positive gain in the maximal-error sum-capacity, while a far greater number of bits, even a number that grows sublinearly in the blocklength, can never yield a non-negligible gain in the average-error sum-capacity.
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© 2021 IEEE. Manuscript received November 23, 2019; revised June 5, 2021; accepted June 16, 2021. Date of publication July 1, 2021; date of current version August 25, 2021. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 1527524 and Grant 1526771. This article was presented in part at the 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops and the 2018 IEEE International Symposium Information Theory.Attached Files
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