Encyclopedia > Shannon capacity

  Article Content

Shannon capacity

In 1949, Claude Elwood Shannon and Warren Weaver[?] wrote The Mathematical Theory of Communication. (ISBN 0252725484) This founded the modern discipline of information theory. Thus it is possible to measure the amount of information in a message.

Shannon's law

<math>C = W \log_2(1 + S/N)</math>
where
C = bits per second - channel capacity,
W = frequency - bandwidth,
S/N = signal-to-noise ratio,
shows that there is a theoretical maximum amount of information that can be transmitted over a bandwidth-limited carrier in the ever-present background noise.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
1904

... - 21st century Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Years: 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907 1908 ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 491.3 ms