• DocumentCode
    2271819
  • 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
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    4-9 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    1406
  • Lastpage
    1410
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005. Proceedings. International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Adelaide, SA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9151-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2005.1523574
  • Filename
    1523574