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receiver in
information theoryInformation theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Historically, information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on compressing and reliably storing and communicating data...
is the receiving end of a communication channel. It receives decoded
messageA message in its most general meaning is an object of communication. It is something which provides information; it can also be this information itself. Therefore, its meaning is dependent upon the context in which it is used; the term may apply to both the information and its form...
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informationInformation as a concept has many meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. The concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.The English...
from the sender, who first
encodeEncode may refer to:* Can be related to "Code"* Encode ApS, a Danish software company* ENCODE, the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements...
d them. Sometimes the receiver is modeled so as to include the decoder. Real-world
receiverReceiver may mean:*The listening device part of a telephone*The handset containing that device*Receiver , an electronic device that changes a radio signal from a transmitter into useful information...
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radio receiversThis article is about a radio receiver, for other uses see Radio .A radio receiver is an electronic circuit that receives its input from an antenna, uses electronic filters to separate a wanted radio signal from all other signals picked up by this antenna, amplifies it to a level suitable for...
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telephoneThe telephone is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. It is one of the most common household appliances in the developed world, and has long been considered indispensable to business, industry and government...
s can not be expected to receive as much information as predicted by the
noisy channel coding theoremIn information theory, the noisy-channel coding theorem establishes that however contaminated with noise interference a communication channel may be, it is possible to communicate digital data nearly error-free up to a given maximum rate through the channel...
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The
receiver in
information theoryInformation theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Historically, information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on compressing and reliably storing and communicating data...
is the receiving end of a communication channel. It receives decoded
messageA message in its most general meaning is an object of communication. It is something which provides information; it can also be this information itself. Therefore, its meaning is dependent upon the context in which it is used; the term may apply to both the information and its form...
s/
informationInformation as a concept has many meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. The concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.The English...
from the sender, who first
encodeEncode may refer to:* Can be related to "Code"* Encode ApS, a Danish software company* ENCODE, the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements...
d them. Sometimes the receiver is modeled so as to include the decoder. Real-world
receiverReceiver may mean:*The listening device part of a telephone*The handset containing that device*Receiver , an electronic device that changes a radio signal from a transmitter into useful information...
s like
radio receiversThis article is about a radio receiver, for other uses see Radio .A radio receiver is an electronic circuit that receives its input from an antenna, uses electronic filters to separate a wanted radio signal from all other signals picked up by this antenna, amplifies it to a level suitable for...
or
telephoneThe telephone is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. It is one of the most common household appliances in the developed world, and has long been considered indispensable to business, industry and government...
s can not be expected to receive as much information as predicted by the
noisy channel coding theoremIn information theory, the noisy-channel coding theorem establishes that however contaminated with noise interference a communication channel may be, it is possible to communicate digital data nearly error-free up to a given maximum rate through the channel...
.