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A necessary and sufficient condition for solvability of a 3s/3t sum-network

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Title A necessary and sufficient condition for solvability of a 3s/3t sum-network
 
Creator SHENVI, S
DEY, BK
 
Description We consider a directed acyclic network with three sources and three terminals such that each source independently generates one symbol from a given field F and each terminal wants to receive the sum (over F) of the source symbols. Each link is error-free, delay-free and can carry one symbol from the field in each use. We call such a network a 3-source 3-terminal (3s/3t) sum-network. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a 3s/3t sum-network to be solvable over any field. Some lemmas provide interesting simpler sufficient conditions for the same. We show that linear codes, and in most cases XOR codes, are sufficient for this problem for 3s/3t though they are known to be insufficient for arbitrary number of sources and terminals. We also prove a recent conjecture that the capacity of a 3s/3t sum-network is either 0, 2/3 or >= 1.
 
Publisher IEEE
 
Date 2011-10-25T00:14:23Z
2011-12-15T09:11:50Z
2011-10-25T00:14:23Z
2011-12-15T09:11:50Z
2010
 
Type Proceedings Paper
 
Identifier 2010 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION THEORY,1858-1862
978-1-4244-6960-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2010.5513430
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/15551
http://hdl.handle.net/100/2321
 
Source 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory,Austin, TX,JUL 13-13, 2010
 
Language English