Title
Minimum Cost Multicast with Decentralized Sources
Abstract
In this paper we study the multisource multicast problem where every sink in a given directed acyclic graph is a client and is interested in a common file. We consider the case where each node can have partial knowledge about the file as a side information. Assuming that nodes can communicate over the capacity constrained links of the graph, the goal is for each client to gain access to the file, while minimizing some linear cost function of number of bits transmitted in the network. We consider three types of side-information settings:(ii) side information in the form of linearly correlated packets; and (iii) the general setting where the side information at the nodes have an arbitrary (i.i.d.) correlation structure. In this work we 1) provide a polynomial time feasibility test, i.e., whether or not all the clients can recover the file, and 2) we provide a polynomial-time algorithm that finds the optimal rate allocation among the links of the graph, and then determines an explicit transmission scheme for cases (i) and (ii).
Year
Venue
Field
2012
CoRR
Graph,Computer science,Network packet,Side information,Directed acyclic graph,Theoretical computer science,Multicast,Time complexity
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1203.2298
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nebojsa Milosavljevic1312.87
Sameer Pawar223716.63
Salim Y. El Rouayheb318818.00
Michael Gastpar42740278.17
Kannan Ramchandran594011029.57