We propose a scheme that universally achieves the smallest possible compression rate for a class of sources with side information, and develop an application of this result for a joint source channel coding problem over a broadcast channel.
@article{arxiv.1408.6824,
title = {Universal Source Polarization and an Application to a Multi-User Problem},
author = {Min Ye and Alexander Barg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6824},
year = {2014}
}