Network computing capacity for the reverse butterfly network

  • Authors:
  • Rathinakumar Appuswamy;Massimo Franceschetti;Nikhil Karamchandani;Kenneth Zeger

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

  • Venue:
  • ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We study the computation of the arithmetic sum of the q-ary source messages in the reverse butterfly network. Specifically, we characterize the maximum rate at which the message sum can be computed at the receiver and demonstrate that linear coding is suboptimal.