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Receiver (information theory)

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The receiver in information theory is the receiving end of a communication channel. It receives decoded messages/information from the sender, who first encoded them.[1] Sometimes the receiver is modeled so as to include the decoder. Real-world receivers like radio receivers or telephones can not be expected to receive as much information as predicted by the noisy channel coding theorem.

Real-world receivers include:

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