Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to derive the optimum word length for the simultaneous digital transmission of a number of continuous signals in real time, through a single communication channel. The transmission introduces sampling and quantization errors; the relation between the fineness of the quantization and the sampling rate, as a function of word length, for a given capacity of the channel, is investigated. Individual word length for signals having different amplitude distribution and unequal expected frequency is also derived.
