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In this chapter, we introduce the large deviation principle that is needed for further development in this book. For a sequence of i.i.d. random variable {Xn,n >1}, it is known from the strong law of large numbers that its empirical average converges to its mean almost surely, i.e.,
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Chang, CS. (2000). Introduction of the Large Deviation Principle. In: Performance Guarantees in Communication Networks. Telecommunication Networks and Computer Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0459-9_8
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