Paper ID: 2206.06973

Two-terminal source coding with common sum reconstruction

Tharindu Adikari, Stark Draper

We present the problem of two-terminal source coding with Common Sum Reconstruction (CSR). Consider two terminals, each with access to one of two correlated sources. Both terminals want to reconstruct the sum of the two sources under some average distortion constraint, and the reconstructions at two terminals must be identical with high probability. In this paper, we develop inner and outer bounds to the achievable rate distortion region of the CSR problem for a doubly symmetric binary source. We employ existing achievability results for Steinberg's common reconstruction and Wyner-Ziv's source coding with side information problems, and an achievability result for the lossy version of Korner-Marton's modulo-two sum computation problem.

Submitted: Jun 14, 2022