Is Non-Unique Decoding Necessary?

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2312285zbMATH Open1360.94446arXiv1312.4378OpenAlexW2151744945MaRDI QIDQ2986372FDOQ2986372

Authors: Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Publication date: 16 May 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In multi-terminal communication systems, signals carrying messages meant for different destinations are often observed together at any given destination receiver. Han and Kobayashi (1981) proposed a receiving strategy which performs a joint unique decoding of messages of interest along with a subset of messages which are not of interest. It is now well-known that this provides an achievable region which is, in general, larger than if the receiver treats all messages not of interest as noise. Nair and El Gamal (2009) and Chong, Motani, Garg, and El Gamal (2008) independently proposed a generalization called indirect or non-unique decoding where the receiver uses the codebook structure of the messages to uniquely decode only its messages of interest. Non-unique decoding has since been used in various scenarios. The main result in this paper is to provide an interpretation and a systematic proof technique for why non-unique decoding, in all known cases where it has been employed, can be replaced by a particularly designed joint unique decoding strategy, without any penalty from a rate region viewpoint.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4378

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Decoding (94B35)

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