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Polar Codes for Distributed Hierarchical Source Coding

Information Theory 2015-09-22 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We show that polar codes can be used to achieve the rate-distortion functions in the problem of hierarchical source coding also known as the successive refinement problem. We also analyze the distributed version of this problem, constructing a polar coding scheme that achieves the rate distortion functions for successive refinement with side information.

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@article{arxiv.1404.5501,
  title  = {Polar Codes for Distributed Hierarchical Source Coding},
  author = {Min Ye and Alexander Barg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5501},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages

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