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| Sep 22, 2014 at 2:27 | comment | added | pericynthion | Note also that practical error correcting codes do not achieve the channel capacity. Most commonly-used ones are quite far from capacity, but some recently-developed codes (e.g. Turbo codes and LDPC) can come extremely close to the capacity. | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 2:25 | comment | added | pericynthion | MacKay explains it better than I can - chapter 11 of cs.toronto.edu/~mackay/itprnn/book.pdf (but you may need to read some of the other chapters for background) | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 19:21 | comment | added | seek | Thanks for the explanation. Could you please explain how coding can make the input ensemble look Gaussian (I read that Gaussian is the capacity achieving input)? | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 20:12 | history | answered | pericynthion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |