A SIMPLE DERIVATION OF THE CODING THEOREM AND SOME APPLICATIONS

Upperboundsarederivedontheprobabilityoferrorthatcanbeachievedbyusingblockcodesongeneraltime-discretememorylesschannels.Bothamplitude-discreteandamplitude-continuouschannelsaretreated,bothwithandwithoutinputconstraints.Themajoradvantagesofthepresentapproacharethesimplicityofthederivation