Information Theoretic Security
Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory
General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics
Watermarking identification codes with related topics on common randomness
General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics
General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics
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We generalize our previous results on generating common randomness at two terminals to a situation where any finite number of agents, interconnected by an arbitrary network of independent, point-to-point, discrete memoryless channels, wish to generate common randomness by interactive communication over the network. Our main result is an exact characterization of the common randomness capacity of such a network, i.e., the maximum number of bits of randomness that all the agents can agree on per step of communication. As a by-product, we also obtain a purely combinatorial result, viz., a characterization of (the incidence vectors of) the spanning arborescences rooted at a specified vertex in a digraph, and having exactly one edge exiting the root, as precisely the extreme points of a certain unbounded convex polyhedron, described by a system of linear inequalities