Universal source coding over generalized complementary delivery networks

  • Authors:
  • Akisato Kimura;Tomohiko Uyematsu;Shigeaki Kuzuoka;Shun Watanabe

  • Affiliations:
  • NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan;Department of Communications and Integrated Systems, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan;Department of Computer and Communication Sciences, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan;Department of Communications and Integrated Systems, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper deals with a universal coding problem for a certain kind of multiterminal source coding network called a generalized complementary delivery network. In this network, messages from multiple correlated sources are jointly encoded, and each decoder has access to some of the messages to enable it to reproduce the other messages. Both fixed-to-fixed length and fixed-to-variable length lossless coding schemes are considered. Explicit constructions of universal codes and the bounds of the error probabilities are clarified by using methods of types and graph-theoretical analysis.