Some analogies between thermodynamics and Shannon theory

Forty-first Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2007 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 166-171

  Samardzija, Dragan ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC COMPRESSION; EQUILIBRIUM STATES; SHANNON THEORY;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DECODING; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 44049086629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISS.2007.4298293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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