Definition
A Z-channel (or a binary asymmetric channel) is a channel with binary input and binary output where the crossover 1 → 0 occurs with nonnegative probability p whereas the crossover 0 ← 1 never occurs. In other words, if X and Y are the random variables describing the probability distributions of the input and the output of the channel, respectively, then the crossovers of the channel are characterized by the conditional probabilities
- Prob{Y = 0 | X = 0} = 1
- Prob{Y = 0 | X = 1} = p
- Prob{Y = 1 | X = 0} = 0
- Prob{Y = 1 | X = 1} = 1−p
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