Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Long before wireless devices became ubiquitous, a brilliant mathematician named Claude Shannon had already determined one of the fundamental limits they would face. The Shannon capacity theorem bounds the rate that information can be transmitted across a noisy channel.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
Long before wireless devices became ubiquitous, a brilliant mathematician named Claude Shannon had already determined one of the fundamental limits they would face. The Shannon capacity theorem bounds the rate that information can be transmitted across a noisy channel.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
