Elements of information theory
Elements of information theory
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Source coding and graph entropies
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Lossless and near-lossless source coding for multiple access networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Distributed source coding using syndromes (DISCUS): design and construction
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Low-Complexity Approaches to Slepian–Wolf Near-Lossless Distributed Data Compression
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian Two-Encoder Source-Coding Problem
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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Motivated by applications to sensor networks and privacy preserving databases, we consider the problem of functional compression. The objective is to separately compress possibly correlated discrete sources such that an arbitrary but fixed deterministic function of those sources can be computed given the compressed data from each source. We consider both the lossless and lossy computation of a function. Specifically, we present results of the rate regions for three instances of the problem where there are two sources: 1) lossless computation where one source is available at the decoder; 2) under a special condition, lossless computation where both sources are separately encoded; and 3) lossy computation where one source is available at the decoder. For all of these instances, we present a layered architecture for distributed coding: first preprocess data at each source using colorings of certain characteristic graphs and then use standard distributed source coding (a la Slepian and Wolfs scheme) to compress them. For the first instance, our results extend the approach developed by Orlitsky and Roche (2001) in the sense that our scheme requires simpler structure of coloring rather than independent sets as in the previous case. As an intermediate step to obtain these results, we obtain an asymptotic characterization of conditional graph coloring for an OR product of graphs generalizing a result of Korner (1973), which should be of interest in its own right.