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Consider a lossy compression system with $\ell$ distributed encoders and a centralized decoder. Each encoder compresses its observed source and forwards the compressed data to the decoder for joint reconstruction of the target signals under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Yizhong Wang , Li Xie , Xuan Zhang , Jun Chen

This paper considers the problem of lossy compression for the computation of a function of two correlated sources, both of which are observed at the encoder. Due to presence of observation costs, the encoder is allowed to observe only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Xi Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

Arbitrarily varying channels offer a powerful framework for analyzing the robustness of quantum communication systems, especially for classical-quantum models, where the analysis displays strengths or weaknesses of specific signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Janis Nötzel , Florian Seitz

Task-Oriented Source Coding (TOSC) has emerged as a paradigm for efficient visual data communication in machine-centric inference systems, where bitrate, latency, and task performance must be jointly optimized under resource constraints.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Andriy Enttsel , Vincent Corlay

We consider a problem in which a source is encoded into N packets, an unknown number of which are subject to adversarial errors en route to the decoder. We seek code designs for which the decoder is guaranteed to be able to reproduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Xiaoqing Fan , Oliver Kosut , Aaron B. wagner

This paper considers a framework where data from correlated sources are transmitted with help of network coding in ad-hoc network topologies. The correlated data are encoded independently at sensors and network coding is employed in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hyunggon Park , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

A joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme based on hybrid digital/analog coding is proposed for the transmission of correlated sources over discrete-memoryless two-way channels (DM-TWCs). The scheme utilizes the correlation between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

We consider unsourced random access with MIMO receiver - a crucial communication scenario for future 5G/6G wireless networks. We perform a projection-based decoder analysis and derive energy efficiency achievability bounds when channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kirill Andreev , Daria Ustinova , Alexey Frolov

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 study the problem of secure joint source-channel coding for multimodal semantic sources transmitted over noisy wiretap channels. The source model consists of $m$ modalities (e.g., image, audio, and sensor data), all represented as random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

We consider lossy source compression of a binary symmetric source using polar codes and the low-complexity successive encoding algorithm. It was recently shown by Arikan that polar codes achieve the capacity of arbitrary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Satish Babu Korada , Rudiger Urbanke

The problem of joint universal source coding and identification is considered in the setting of fixed-rate lossy coding of continuous-alphabet memoryless sources. For a wide class of bounded distortion measures, it is shown that any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maxim Raginsky

In the Wyner-Ziv source coding problem, a source $X$ has to be encoded while the decoder has access to side information $Y$. This paper investigates the indirect setup, in which a latent source $S$, unobserved by both the encoder and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jiahui Wei , Philippe Mary , Elsa Dupraz

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

We consider the classical two-encoder multiterminal source coding problem where distortion is measured under logarithmic loss. We provide a single-letter characterization of the achievable rate distortion region for arbitrarily correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Thomas Courtade , Tsachy Weissman

Consider the problem of source coding in networks with multiple receiving terminals, each having access to some kind of side information. In this case, standard coding techniques are either prohibitively complex to decode, or require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Chen Avin , Michael Borokhovich , Asaf Cohen , Zvi Lotker

Optical networks are vulnerable to physical layer attacks; wiretappers can improperly receive messages intended for legitimate recipients. Our work considers an aspect of this security problem within the domain of multimode fiber (MMF)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eva C. Song , Emina Soljanin , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor , Kyle Guan

We consider secure multi-terminal source coding problems in the presence of a public helper. Two main scenarios are studied: 1) source coding with a helper where the coded side information from the helper is eavesdropped by an external…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-05 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Yeow-Khiang Chia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund , Tsachy Weissman

This work discusses the source broadcasting problem, i.e. transmitting a source to many receivers via a broadcast channel. The optimal rate-distortion region for this problem is unknown. The separation approach divides the problem into two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Uri Mendlovic , Meir Feder

We consider the problem of synthesizing a memoryless channel between an unobserved source and a remote terminal. An encoder has access to a partial or noisy version $Z^n = (Z_1, \ldots, Z_n)$ of a remote source sequence $X^n = (X_1, \ldots,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yassine Hamdi , Deniz Gündüz