Communicating the sum of sources in a 3-sources/3-terminals network

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Langberg, Michael
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We consider the network communication scenario in which a number of sources si each holding independent information Xi wish to communicate the sum ∑Xi to a set of terminals tj. In this work we consider directed acyclic graphs with unit capacity edges and independent sources of unit-entropy. The case in which there are only two sources or only two terminals was considered by the work of Ramamoorthy [ISIT 2008] where it was shown that communication is possible if and only if each source terminal pair si/tj is connected by at least a single path. In this work we study the communication problem in general, and show that even for the case of three sources and three terminals, a single path connecting source/terminal pairs does not suffice to communicate ∑Xi. We then present an efficient encoding scheme which enables the communication of ∑Xi for the three sources, three terminals case, given that each source terminal pair is connected by two edge disjoint paths. Our encoding scheme includes a structural decomposition of the network at hand which may be found useful for other network coding problems as well.

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This is a manuscript of a proceeding from the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (2009): 2121, doi:10.1109/ISIT.2009.5205758. Posted with permission.

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