Successively Structured Gaussian Two-terminal Source Coding |
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Authors: | Hamid Behroozi M. Reza Soleymani |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6;(2) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3G 1M8 |
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Abstract: | Multiterminal source coding refers to separate encoding and joint decoding of multiple correlated sources. Joint decoding requires all the messages to be decoded simultaneously which is exponentially more complex than a sequence of single-message decodings. Inspired by previous work on successive coding, we apply the successive Wyner-Ziv coding, which is inherently a low complexity approach of obtaining a prescribed distortion, to the two-terminal source coding scheme. First, we consider 1-helper problem where one source provides partial side information to the decoder to help the reconstruction of the main source. Our results show that the successive coding strategy is an optimal strategy in the sense of achieving the rate-distortion function. By developing connections between source encoding and data fusion steps, it is shown that the whole rate-distortion region for the 2-terminal source coding problem is achievable using the successive coding strategy. Comparing the performance of the sequential coding with the performance of the successive coding, we show that there is no sum-rate loss when the side information is not available at the encoder. This result is of special interest in some applications such as video coding where there are processing and storage constraints at the encoder. Finally, we provide an achievable rate-distortion region for the m-terminal source coding. |
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Keywords: | Multiterminal source coding m-helper problem Partial side information Rate-distortion region Successive coding Sequential coding |
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