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This paper investigates the rate-distortion function, under a squared error distortion $D$, for an $n$-dimensional random vector uniformly distributed on an $(n-1)$-sphere of radius $R$. First, an expression for the rate-distortion function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

The relation between rate distortion function (RDF) and Bayesian filtering theory is discussed. The relation is established by imposing a causal or realizability constraint on the reconstruction conditional distribution of the RDF, leading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Photios A. Stavrou , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Christos K. Kourtellaris

This paper considers the maximization of information rates for the Gaussian frequency-selective interference channel, subject to power and spectral mask constraints on each link. To derive decentralized solutions that do not require any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-17 Gesualdo Scutari , Daniel P. Palomar , Sergio Barbarossa

A rate-distortion problem motivated by the consideration of semantic information is formulated and solved. The starting point is to model an information source as a pair consisting of an intrinsic state which is not observable,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiakun Liu , Wenyi Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

We prove achievability of the recently characterized quadratic Gaussian rate-distortion function (RDF) subject to the constraint that the distortion is uncorrelated to the source. This result is based on shaped dithered lattice quantization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-24 Milan S. Derpich , Jan Ostergaard , Daniel E. Quevedo

Consider a pair of correlated Gaussian sources (X1,X2). Two separate encoders observe the two components and communicate compressed versions of their observations to a common decoder. The decoder is interested in reconstructing a linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-25 D. Krithivasan , S. S. Pradhan

In this paper the multicasting of independent parallel Gaussian sources over a binary erasure broadcasted channel is considered. Multiresolution embedded quantizer and layered joint source-channel coding schemes are used in order to serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-19 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Maria Fresia , Giuseppe Caire , H. Vincent Poor

This paper analyzes the joint Rate Distortion Function (RDF) of correlated multivariate Gaussian sources with individual square-error distortions. Leveraging Hotelling's canonical variable form, presented is a closed-form characterization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Evagoras Stylianou , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous

Computing the rate-distortion function for continuous sources is commonly regarded as a standard continuous optimization problem. When numerically addressing this problem, a typical approach involves discretizing the source space and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

New bounds on the rate distortion function of certain non-Gaussian sources, with a proportional-weighted mean-square error (MSE) distortion measure, are given. The growth, g, of the rate distortion function, as a result of changing from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Jacob Binia

In this paper the relation between nonanticipative rate distortion function (RDF) and Bayesian filtering theory is further investigated on general Polish spaces. The relation is established via an optimization on the space of conditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Photios A. Stavrou , Charalambos D. Charalambous

We improve the existing achievable rate regions for causal and for zero-delay source coding of stationary Gaussian sources under an average mean squared error (MSE) distortion measure. To begin with, we find a closed-form expression for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Milan S. Derpich , Jan Østergaard

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

The rate-distortion function (RDF) has long been an information-theoretic benchmark for data compression. As its natural extension, the indirect rate-distortion function (iRDF) corresponds to the scenario where the encoder can only access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zichao Yu , Qiang Sun , Wenyi Zhang

The task of jointly communicating a message and reconstructing a common estimate of the channel state is examined for a fading Gaussian model with additive state interference. The state is an independent and identically distributed Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Viswanathan Ramachandran

The problem of estimating the information rate distortion perception function (RDPF), which is a relevant information-theoretic quantity in goal-oriented lossy compression and semantic information reconstruction, is investigated here.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Martha V. Sourla , Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

The capacity of the heat channel, a linear time-varying (LTV) filter with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), is characterized by waterfilling in the time-frequency plane. Similarly, the rate distortion function for a related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Edwin Hammerich

We study the rate-distortion problem for both scalar and vector memoryless heavy-tailed $\alpha$-stable sources ($0 < \alpha < 2$). Using a recently defined notion of ``strength" as a power measure, we derive the rate-distortion function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Karim Ezzeddine , Jihad Fahs , Ibrahim Abou-Faycal

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying random process, code and transmit those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

A causal rate distortion function is defined, its solution is described, and its relation to filtering theory is discussed. The relation to filtering is obtained via a causal constraint imposed on the reconstruction kernel to be realizable.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Photios A. Stavrou , Charalambos D. Charalambous