Information Theory - units of channel capacity

1. What is channel capacity unit?
2. What measure the capacity of a communication channel?
3. What is the information capacity theorem?
4. What do you mean by channel capacity?

What is channel capacity unit?

The channel capacity, C, is defined to be the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted through a channel. The fundamental theorem of information theory says that at any rate below channel capacity, an error control code can be designed whose probability of error is arbitrarily small.

What measure the capacity of a communication channel?

Channel capacity is a maximum information rate that a channel can transmit. It is measured in bits per second (bps).

What is the information capacity theorem?

The Shannon capacity theorem defines the maximum amount of information, or data capacity, which can be sent over any channel or medium (wireless, coax, twister pair, fiber etc.). What this says is that higher the signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio and more the channel bandwidth, the higher the possible data rate.

What do you mean by channel capacity?

Channel capacity is an expression of the maximum data traffic that can be handled by the channel.