Function Computation Through a Bidirectional Relay
Articles
Overview
published in
publication date
- February 2019
start page
- 902
end page
- 916
issue
- 2
volume
- 65
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0018-9448
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1557-9654
abstract
- We consider a function computation problem in a three-node wireless network. Nodes A and B observe two correlated sources X and Y, respectively, and want to compute a function f (X, Y). To achieve this, nodes A and B send messages to a relay node C at rates R-A and R-B, respectively. The relay C then broadcasts a message to A and B at rate R-C. We allow block coding and study the achievable region of rate triples under both zero-error and epsilon-error. As a preparation, we first consider a broadcast network from the relay to A and B. A and B have side information X and Y, respectively. The relay node C observes both X and Y and broadcasts an encoded message to A and B. We want to obtain the optimal broadcast rate such that A and B can recover the function f (X, Y) from the received message and their individual side information X and Y, respectively. For this problem, we show equivalence between epsilon-error and zero-error computations-this gives a rate characterization for zero-error computation. As a corollary, this also gives a rate characterization for the relay network under zero error for a class of functions called component-wise one-to-one functions when the support set of pXY is full. For the relay network, the zero-error rate region for arbitrary functions is characterized in terms of graph coloring of some suitably defined probabilistic graphs. We then give a single-letter inner bound to this rate region. Furthermore, we extend the graph theoretic ideas to address the epsilon-error problem and obtain a single-letter inner bound.
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keywords
- distributed source coding; function computation; zero-error information theory; correlated sources; side; sum