Concavity of mutual information rate for input-restricted finite-state memoryless channels at high SNR

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information TheoryWe consider a finite-state memoryless channel with i.i.d. channel state and the input Markov process supported on a mixing finite-type constraint. We discuss the asymptotic behavior of entropy rate of the output hidden Markov chain and deduce that the mutual information rate of such a channel is concave with respect to the parameters of the input Markov processes at high signal-to-noise ratio. In principle, the concavity result enables good numerical approximation of the maximum mutual information rate and capacity of such a channel. © 2009 IEEE.link_to_subscribed_fulltex