CHAPTER 12
Information Theory and Coding
Chapter Outline
Learning Objectives
- Definition of Information and Measure of Information Content
- Average Information Transmitted or Entropy
- Information Rate
- Shannon-Fano Theorem of Coding
- Channel Capacity
- Encoding Techniques
- Error Coding
12.1 Introduction
Communication means exchange of information. Information theory aims to estimate the information content of any signal. The importance of any information depends on its news value. In our day-to-day life an event that occurs ...
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