Beyond the Bound: A New Performance Perspective for Identification via Channels

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Abstract

Identification via channels (ID) is a goal-oriented (Post-Shannon) communications paradigm that verifies the matching of message (identity) pairs at source and sink. To date, ID research has focused on the upper bound λ for the probability of a false-positive (FP) identity match, mainly through ID tagging codes that represent the identities through ID codeword sets consisting of position-tag tuples. We broaden the ID research scope by introducing novel ID performance metrics: the expected FP-error probability pfp which considers distance properties of ID codeword sets in conjunction with the probability for selecting ID pairs, the threshold probabilities pϵ that characterize quantiles of FP-probabilities, and the distance tail uplift ratio DiTUR giving the fraction of ID pairs whose distance is increased above the minimum distance (which corresponds to λ). We define a No-Code (NC) approach that directly conducts the ID operations with the messages (identities) without any additional coding as a baseline for ID. We investigate a concatenated Reed-Solomon ID code and a Reed-Muller ID code, and find that they do not always yield advantages over using no ID code. We analytically characterize the reduction of error-prone ID pairs through sending multiple tags. Overall, our insights point to investigating the distance distribution of ID codes and to incorporating the ID pair distributions of real ID systems in future ID research.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2687 - 2706
Number of pages20
JournalIEEE journal on selected areas in communications
Volume41
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 85161765253
ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161891063

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Keywords

  • Error probability, Reed-Solomon Codes, false-positive identification, goal-oriented communication, performance metrics, probabilistic performance, upper bound