Editing Adaptive communications (section)

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'''Adaptive communications'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Adapting innovative systems for more secure naval communications |url=https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/engineering_and_computing/news_events/news/2023/wang_naval_adaptive_communications.php |website=sc.edu |publisher=Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing |access-date=2 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref> can mean any [[communications system]], or portion thereof, that automatically uses [[feedback]] [[information]] obtained from the system itself or from the signals carried by the system to modify dynamically one or more of the system operational parameters to improve system performance or to resist [[Degradation (telecommunications)|degradation]].  
The modification of a system parameter may be discrete, as in hard-switched [[diversity reception]], or may be continuous, as in a 
[[predetection]] combining algorithm.