Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2011-05-31
Computer Science
Information Theory
5 pages, 8 figures, to appear in ISIT 2011
Scientific paper
We consider a noisy Slepian-Wolf problem where two correlated sources are separately encoded and transmitted over two independent binary memoryless symmetric channels. Each channel capacity is assumed to be characterized by a single parameter which is not known at the transmitter. The receiver has knowledge of both the source correlation and the channel parameters. We call a system universal if it retains near-capacity performance without channel knowledge at the transmitter. Kudekar et al. recently showed that terminated low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes (a.k.a. spatially-coupled LDPC ensembles) can have belief-propagation thresholds that approach their maximum a-posteriori thresholds. This was proven for binary erasure channels and shown empirically for binary memoryless symmetric channels. They also conjectured that the principle of spatial coupling is very general and the phenomenon of threshold saturation applies to a very broad class of graphical models. In this work, we derive an area theorem for the joint decoder and empirically show that threshold saturation occurs for this problem. As a result, we demonstrate near-universal performance for this problem using the proposed spatially-coupled coding system. A similar result is also discussed briefly for the 2-user multiple-access channel.
Narayanan Krishna
Pfister Henry D.
Yedla Arvind
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