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In a point-to-point communication system, the transmitting point and the receiving point are connected by a communication channel. An information source is generated at the transmission point, and the purpose of the communi cation system is to deliver the information generated at the transmission point to the receiving point via the channel.
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Yeung, R.W. (2002). Single-Source Network Coding. In: A First Course in Information Theory. Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8608-5_11
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