Technical Program

Paper Detail

Paper IDN.1.2
Paper Title On the Partition Bound for Undirected Unicast Network Information Capacity
Authors Mohammad Ishtiyaq Qureshi, Satyajit Thakor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
Session N.1: Network Coding I
Presentation Lecture
Track Networking and Network Coding
Manuscript  Click here to download the manuscript
Virtual Presentation  Click here to watch in the Virtual Symposium
Abstract One of the important unsolved problems in information theory is the conjecture that network coding has no rate benefit over routing in undirected unicast networks. Three known bounds on the symmetric rate in undirected unicast information networks are the sparsest cut, the LP bound and the partition bound. In this paper, we present three results on the partition bound. We show that the decision version problem of computing the partition bound is NP-complete. We give complete proofs of optimal routing schemes for two classes of networks that attain the partition bound. Recently, the conjecture was proved for a new class of networks and it was shown that all the network instances for which the conjecture is proved previously are elements of this class. We show the existence of a network for which the partition bound is tight, achievable by routing and is not an element of this new class of networks.

Plan Ahead

IEEE ISIT 2021

2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

11-16 July 2021 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Visit Website!