rate and outage probability

[lativasson]

hello, I didn't understand why if the mutual information between source and destination is less than the rate an outage occur?

 

[drizzd]

You are comparing different things. Mutual information determines the capacity of a channel, whereas outage probability is the probability that the capacity is below a certain threshold.

 

[lativasson]

thanks for your answering but i found it in a book about the cognitive radio networks and they said if the mutual information between the source and the destination is less the the rate so an outage occur