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Name: Capacity of a Channel
ID: m0098
Language: English (en)
Summary: Shannon derived the maximum datarate of a source coder's output that can be transmitted through a bandlimited additive white noise channel with no error.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: bandlimited, capacity, channel, datarate, digital communication, error-correcting code, error correction, information communication, Shannon, signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, white noise
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 1.0)
Authors: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu), John Cottrell (jac3@rice.edu)
Version: 2.13 (history)
Created: Nov 8, 2000 12:00 am US/Central
Revised: Jul 15, 2007 5:43 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 2.13 Jul 15, 2007 5:43 pm GMT-5 by Don Johnson
Changes: 
Corrected bits/s in first equation.
Version: 2.12 Jun 3, 2007 10:59 pm GMT-5 by Don Johnson
Changes: 
Fixed a few minor formatting problems.
Version: 2.11 Apr 6, 2005 8:36 pm GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes: 
update to cnxml-0.5, update mathml
Version: 2.10 Aug 19, 2003 9:18 am GMT-5 by Don Johnson
Changes: 
Fixed some typos.
Version: 2.9 Aug 13, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
Upgraded to 0.4.
Version: 2.8 Apr 26, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
fixed cnxn, changed unit markup, changed math markup to cn e-notation,
Version: 2.7 Nov 28, 2001 12:00 am US/Central by (Unknown)
Changes: 
Fixed a minor math typo.
Version: 2.6 Sep 11, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by Brent Hendricks
Changes: 
Converted to CNXML 0.3.5
Version: 2.5 Aug 23, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
fixed blanks
Version: 2.4 Jul 17, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
added keywords
made John Cottrell a maintainer
fixed minor errors
Version: 2.3 Jun 5, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
abstract added to textfield of database
Version: 2.2 Jun 5, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
added email addresses for author and maintainers
Version: 2.0 Dec 7, 2000 12:00 am US/Central by Brent Hendricks
Changes: 
Bumped version to 2.0

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