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The Z-channel sees each 0 bit of a message transmitted correctly always and each 1 bit transmitted correctly with probability 1–p, due to noise across the transmission medium.

In coding theory and information theory, a Z-channel or binary asymmetric channel is a communications channel used to model the behaviour of some data storage systems.