Receiver (information theory)

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.{{Cite web |title=information theory - Classical information theory {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/information-theory/Classical-information-theory |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} 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.