Claude Shannon, the father of Information Theory, described the fundamental problem of point-to-point communications in his classic 1948 paper as “that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.” How engineers solve this problem is the subject of this book. But unlike Shannon’s general problem, where the message can be an image, a sound clip, or a movie, here we restrict ourselves to bits.
We thus envision that the original message is either a binary sequence to start with, or else that it was described using bits by a device outside our control and that our job is to reproduce the describing bits with high reliability. The issue of how images or text files are converted efficiently into bits is the subject of lossy and lossless data compression and is addressed in texts on information theory and on quantization.
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