{"title":"Binary erasure multiple descriptions: Worst-case distortion","authors":"E. Ahmed, A. Wagner","doi":"10.1109/ISIT.2009.5205730","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We consider a binary erasure version of the n-channel multiple descriptions problem with no excess rate and no distortion for every k out of n descriptions, i.e., any subset of k messages has a total rate of one and allows for perfect reconstruction of the source. Using a worst-case distortion criterion, we present an explicit coding scheme based on Reed-Solomon codes and, for any n and k, characterize its achievable distortion region when m ≪ k messages are received at the decoder. We prove that this scheme is Pareto optimal in the achievable distortions for all n and k for any number of received messages at the decoder, and is optimal for all n and k when a single message is received. We also provide optimality results for a certain range of values of n and k.","PeriodicalId":412925,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2009.5205730","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We consider a binary erasure version of the n-channel multiple descriptions problem with no excess rate and no distortion for every k out of n descriptions, i.e., any subset of k messages has a total rate of one and allows for perfect reconstruction of the source. Using a worst-case distortion criterion, we present an explicit coding scheme based on Reed-Solomon codes and, for any n and k, characterize its achievable distortion region when m ≪ k messages are received at the decoder. We prove that this scheme is Pareto optimal in the achievable distortions for all n and k for any number of received messages at the decoder, and is optimal for all n and k when a single message is received. We also provide optimality results for a certain range of values of n and k.