The Achievable Rate-Distortion Region for Distributed Source Coding with One Distortion Criterion and Correlated Messages

Abstract

In this letter, distributed source coding with one distortion criterion and correlated messages is considered. This problem can be regarded as "Berger-Yeung problem with correlated messages". It corresponds to the source coding part of the graph-based framework for transmission of a pair of correlated sources over the multiple-access channel where one is lossless and the other is lossy. As a result, the achievable rate-distortion region for this problem is provided. A rigorous proof of both achievability and converse part is also given.