Title :
An improved outer bound for the multiterminal source-coding problem
Author :
Wagner, Aaron B. ; Anantharam, Venkat
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA
Abstract :
We prove a new outer bound on the rate-distortion region for the multiterminal source-coding problem. This bound subsumes the best known bound in the literature and improves upon it strictly in some cases. The improved bound enables us to obtain a new, conclusive result for the binary-erasure instance of the "CEO problem." The bound recovers many of the converse results that have been established for special cases of the problem, including the recent one for the Gaussian version of the CEO problem
Keywords :
Gaussian processes; source coding; CEO problem; Gaussian version; binary-erasure instance; improved outer bound; multiterminal source-coding problem; rate-distortion region; Codes; Computer networks; Decoding; Network topology; Propagation losses; Rate-distortion; Stochastic processes; Zinc;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9151-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2005.1523574
