Causal Posterior Matching and its Applications

Abstract: We consider the problem of communication over the binary symmetric channel with feedback, where the information sequence is made available in a causal, possibly random, fashion. We develop a real-time variant of the renowned Horstein scheme and provide analytical guarantees for its error-probability exponential decay rate. We further use the scheme to stabilize an unstable control plant over a binary symmetric channel and compare the analytical guarantees with its empirical performance as well as with those of anytime-reliable codes.