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The amount of information lost in sub-Nyquist sampling of a continuous-time Gaussian stationary process is quantified. We consider a combined source coding and sub-Nyquist reconstruction problem in which the input to the encoder is a noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Alon Kipnis , Andrea J. Goldsmith , Yonina C. Eldar , Tsachy Weissman

We consider the problem of reconstructing wideband frequency spectra from distributed, compressive measurements. The measurements are made by a network of nodes, each independently mixing the ambient spectra with low frequency, random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Thomas Kealy , Oliver Johnson , Robert Piechocki

This paper is concerned with decentralized estimation of a Gaussian source using multiple sensors. We consider a diversity scheme where only the sensor with the best channel sends their measurements over a fading channel to a fusion center,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Alex S. Leong , Subhrakanti Dey

The problem of reconstructing a source sequence with the presence of decoder side-information that is mis-synchronized to the source due to deletions is studied in a distributed source coding framework. Motivated by practical applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-03-06 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Yunnan Wu , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

We consider the distributed source coding system for $L$ correlated Gaussian observations $Y_i, i=1,2, ..., L$. Let $X_i,i=1,2, ..., L$ be $L$ correlated Gaussian random variables and $N_i,$ $i=1,2,... L$ be independent additive Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-09 Yasutada Oohama

The problem of sampling a discrete-time sequence of spatially bandlimited fields with a bounded dynamic range, in a distributed, communication-constrained, processing environment is addressed. A central unit, having access to the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Animesh Kumar , Prakash Ishwar , Kannan Ramchandran

We propose an approach to lossy source coding, utilizing ideas from Gibbs sampling, simulated annealing, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The idea is to sample a reconstruction sequence from a Boltzmann distribution associated with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shirin Jalali , Tsachy Weissman

This paper addresses the problem of coding a continuous random source correlated with another source which is only available at the decoder. The proposed approach is based on the extension of the channel coding concept of syndrome from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-11 Lorenzo Cappellari

This paper considers the problem of distributed source coding for a large network. A major obstacle that poses an existential threat to practical deployment of conventional approaches to distributed coding is the exponential growth of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Kumar Viswanatha , Sharadh Ramaswamy , Ankur Saxena , Emrah Akyol , Kenneth Rose

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

Some state-of-art multimedia source encoders produce embedded source bit streams that upon the reliable reception of only a fraction of the total bit stream, the decoder is able reconstruct the source up to a basic quality. Reliable…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Suayb S. Arslan

A distributed sensing protocol uses a network of local sensing nodes to estimate a global feature of the network, such as a weighted average of locally detectable parameters. In the noiseless case, continuous-variable multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Quntao Zhuang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

Recreating complex, high-dimensional global fields from limited data points is a grand challenge across various scientific and industrial domains. Given the prohibitive costs of specialized sensors and the frequent inaccessibility of…

We investigate distributed source coding of two correlated sources X and Y where messages are passed to a decoder in a cascade fashion. The encoder of X sends a message at rate R_1 to the encoder of Y. The encoder of Y then sends a message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Paul Cuff , Han-I Su , Abbas El Gamal

In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering source information from an incomplete set of network coded data. We first study the theoretical performance of such systems under maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding and derive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

Traditional distributed source coding rarely considers the possible link between separate encoders. However, the broadcast nature of wireless communication in sensor networks provides a free gossip mechanism which can be used to simplify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Zichong Chen , Guillermo Barrenetxea , Martin Vetterli

A distributed detection scheme where the sensors transmit with constant modulus signals over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. The deflection coefficient of the proposed scheme is shown to depend on the characteristic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Sivaraman Dasarathan

Distributed source coding (DSC) is the task of encoding an input in the absence of correlated side information that is only available to the decoder. Remarkably, Slepian and Wolf showed in 1973 that an encoder without access to the side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jay Whang , Alliot Nagle , Anish Acharya , Hyeji Kim , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We consider a distributed source coding problem of $L$ correlated Gaussian observations $Y_i, i=1,2,...,L$. We assume that the random vector $Y^{L}={}^{\rm t} (Y_1,Y_2,$ $...,Y_L)$ is an observation of the Gaussian random vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Yasutada Oohama