Title :
Some bounds on the capacity of communicating the sum of sources
Author :
Rai, Brijesh Kumar ; Dey, Bikash Kumar ; Shenvi, Sagar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Bombay, Mumbai, India
Abstract :
We consider directed acyclic networks with multiple sources and multiple terminals where each source generates one i.i.d. random process over a finite field and all the terminals want to recover the sum of these random processes. The different source processes are assumed to be independent. The solvability of such networks has been considered in some previous works. In this paper we investigate on the capacity of such networks, referred as sum-networks, and present some bounds in terms of min-cut, and the numbers of sources and terminals.
Keywords :
random processes; telecommunication terminals; finite fields; min-cut terms; multiple sources; random process; sum-networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Distributed computing; Galois fields; Linear code; Modules (abstract algebra); Multicast algorithms; Network coding; Random processes; Routing; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory (ITW 2010, Cairo), 2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6372-5
DOI :
10.1109/ITWKSPS.2010.5503143