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Beyond the cut-set bound: Uncertainty computations in network coding with correlated sources

Gohari, A. A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2011

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/ISIT.2011.6034199
  3. Publisher: 2011
  4. Abstract:
  5. Cut-set bounds on achievable rates for network communication protocols are not in general tight. In this paper we introduce a new technique for proving converses for the problem of transmission of correlated sources in networks, that results in bounds that are tighter than the corresponding cut-set bounds. We also define the concept of "uncertainty region" which might be of independent interest. We provide a full characterization of this region for the case of two correlated random variables. The bounding technique works as follows: on one hand we show that if the communication problem is solvable, the uncertainty of certain random variables in the network with respect to imaginary parties that have partial knowledge of the sources must satisfy some constraints that depend on the network architecture. On the other hand, the same uncertainties have to satisfy constraints that only depend on the joint distribution of the sources. Matching these two leads to restrictions on the statistical joint distribution of the sources in communication problems that are solvable over a given network architecture
  6. Keywords:
  7. Achievable rate ; Bounding techniques ; Communication problems ; Correlated sources ; Cut-set bound ; Joint distributions ; Network communications ; Partial knowledge ; Communication ; Information theory ; Network architecture ; Random variables ; Network coding
  8. Source: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, 31 July 2011 through 5 August 2011 ; July , 2011 , Pages 598-602 ; 21578104 (ISSN) ; 9781457705953 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6034199