Second-order rate region of constant-composition codes for the multiple-access channel
Jonathan Scarlett, Alfonso García Martínez, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas · 2013
This paper presents an achievable second-order rate region for the discrete memoryless multiple-access channel. The result is obtained using a random-coding ensemble in which each user's codebook contains codewords of a fixed composition. It is shown that this ensemble performs at least as well as i.i.d. random coding in terms of second-order asymptotics, and an example is given where a strict improvement is observed.