A Graph Theoretical Approach to Network Encoding Complexity

作者:Xu Easton Li*; Shang Weiping; Han Guangyue
来源:International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), 2012-10-28 to 2012-10-31.

摘要

For an acyclic directed network with multiple pairs of sources and sinks and a group of edge-disjoint paths connecting each pair of source and sink, it is known that the number of mergings among different groups of edge-disjoint paths is closely related to network encoding complexity. Using this connection, we derive exact values of and bounds on two functions relevant to encoding complexity for such networks.