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Shannon's Formula and Hartley's Rule: A Mathematical Coincidence?
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AIP Conference Proceedings . 2015, Vol. 1641 Issue 1, p105-112. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Shannon's formula C = 1/2log(1+P/N) is the emblematic expression for the information capacity of a communication channel. Hartley's name is often associated with it, owing to Hartley's rule: counting the highest possible number of distinguishable values for a given amplitude Δ and precision ±Δ yields a similar expression C' = log(1+A/Δ). In the information theory community, the following "historical" statements are generally well accepted: (1) Hartley put forth his rule twenty years before Shannon; (2) Shannon's formula as a fundamental tradeoff between transmission rate, bandwidth, and signal-to-noise ratio came unexpected in 1948; (3) Hartley's rule is an imprecise relation while Shannon's formula is exact; (4) Hartley's expression is not an appropriate formula for the capacity of a communication channel. We show that all these four statements are questionable, if not wrong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0094243X
- Volume :
- 1641
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 100460159
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905969