SHANNON, C.E.

Probability Error for Optimal Codes in a Gaussian Channel.

(New York), American Telephone and Telegraph Compagny, 1959. Orig. printed wrappers. A stamp on frontwrapper and first leaf. "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume 38, Number 3, pp. 611-907. The Shannon paper: pp. 611-656.

First edition. "A study is made of coding and decoding systems for a continous channel with an additive gaussian noise and subject to an average power limitation at the transmitter. Upper and lower bounds are found for the error probability in decoding with optimal codes and decoding systems. These bounds are close together for signaling rates near channel capacity and also for signaling rates near zero, but diverge in between. Curves exhibiting these bounds are given." (Shannon p. 611). - Hook & Norman: 898.

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