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Successive Refinement with Decoder Cooperation and its Channel Coding Duals
We study cooperation in multi terminal source coding models involving
successive refinement. Specifically, we study the case of a single encoder and
two decoders, where the encoder provides a common description to both the
decoders and a private description to only one of the decoders. The decoders
cooperate via cribbing, i.e., the decoder with access only to the common
description is allowed to observe, in addition, a deterministic function of the
reconstruction symbols produced by the other. We characterize the fundamental
performance limits in the respective settings of non-causal, strictly-causal
and causal cribbing. We use a new coding scheme, referred to as Forward
Encoding and Block Markov Decoding, which is a variant of one recently used by
Cuff and Zhao for coordination via implicit communication. Finally, we use the
insight gained to introduce and solve some dual channel coding scenarios
involving Multiple Access Channels with cribbing.Comment: 55 pages, 15 figures, 8 tables, submitted to IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory. A shorter version submitted to ISIT 201