exact repair problems with multiple sources: ciss 2014

CISS 2014, Princeton NJ 1

Exact Repair Problems with Multiple Sources

Jayant Apte*, Congduan Li, John MacLaren Walsh, Steven Weber

ECE Dept. Drexel University


Outline

● Problem Definition● Computer assisted proofs: General Structure● Polyhedral bounds on● Polyhedral computation interpretation of rate

region computation● A projection technique for computing

achievable rate region


Outline

● Problem Definition● Computer assisted proofs: General structure● Polyhedral bounds on● Polyhedral computation interpretation of rate




(n,k,d) Exact Repair with multiple sources


2-source (3,2,2) exact repair problem



2 sources



3 encoding functions



3 storage random variables



3 decoders with different demands



6 repair encodingfunctions



3 repair decodingfunctions



Total 11 random variables


Implicit characterization of rate region(Yan et al.)


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Motivation

SourcesDecoderDemands

SoftwareNetwork


Motivation

Software

SourcesDecoderDemands

NetworkRate Region

and optimal codes


Software for computer assisted proofs


Computer assisted converse



Inequalities obtained as an implication of linear Shannon-type,non-Shannon-type, non-linear non-Shannon type inequalities andnetwork constraints


Computer assisted achievability


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● Closure of set of all 'entropic' vectors arising from N-variable probability distributions

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● Each entropic vector is formed by stacking entropies of subsets of N random variables

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● Each entropic vector is formed by stacking entropies of subsets of N random variables

● Cone:

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● Cannot be expressed as intersection of finite number of linear inequalities for N>3

● For N=4, existence of single nonlinear● non-Shannon inequality(necessary and

sufficient) is known [Liu & Walsh 2014]● Additionally, several hundred linear

non-Shannon inequalities are known[DFZ 2011, Csirmaz 2013]

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Outline

● Problem Definition● Computer assisted proofs: General structure● Polyhedral bounds on

– Shannon (Outer) bound

● Polyhedral computation interpretation of rate region computation

● A projection technique for computing achievable rate region


Shannon Outer Bound


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– (Representable) Matroid (Inner) bound(s)




(Representable) Matroid Inner bound(s)


(Representable) Matroid Inner Bound(s)


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– Matroid (Inner) bound(s)

– Subspace (Inner) bounds




Subspace Inner Bound(s)


Polyhedral bounds on rate region

● Using polyhedral inner/outer bound on yields

polyhedral inner/outer bounds on rate region● Lemma 1: Inner bounds on rate region

computed using or are achievable using linear codes


Outline



– Matroid (Inner) bound(s)

– Subspace (Inner) bounds




Network Coding constraints


Network Coding constraints

● Consider a type 1 or type 2 constraint H● In general, computing extreme rays of given H and

extreme rays of is equivalent to an iteration of Double Description Method of polyhedral representation conversion

● Lemma 2 [Li et al. 2013]: An extreme ray of is an extreme ray of if it is contained in the hyperplane corresponding to H

● Hence, simple membership check suffices to find extreme rays of


Rate constraints

Storage Bandwidth


Rate constraints

Repair Bandwidth

Storage Bandwidth


A projection technique for computing achievable rate region


Polyhedral projection via chm

● chm is an implementation of polyhedral projection algorithm called Convex Hull Method by Jayant Apte*

● chmlib v0.x is available at:

http://www.ece.drexel.edu/walsh/aspitrg/software.html

● Rational arithmetic using FLINT: Fast Library for Number Theory

● Rational LP solver based on qsopt

http://www.ece.drexel.edu/walsh/aspitrg/software.html


Polyhedral projection via chm

● Has been used for– The current work

– Computer assisted converse proofs of rate regions of Multilevel Diversity Coding Systems(a special case of multi-source network coding)

– Finding non-Shannon Information Inequalities via Generalized Copy Lemma of Csirmaz

● Can be used for – Finding necessary conditions for non-contexuality of small

marginal scenarios(Quantum Information)


Results

SoftwareNetwork


Rate region for H(S1)=1 and H(S2)=1


Rate region for H(S1)=1 and H(S2)=2


References● X. Yan, R.W. Yeung, and Zhen Zhang. An implicit characterization of the achievable rate region for acyclic

multisource multisink network coding. Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on, 58(9):5625–5639, 2012.● Dougherty, Randall, Chris Freiling, and Kenneth Zeger. "Non-Shannon information inequalities in four

random variables." arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3602 (2011).● Csirmaz, László. "Information inequalities for four variables." CEU (2013).● Yunshu Liu and John M. Walsh, "Only One Nonlinear Non-Shannon Inequality is Necessary for Four

Variables", submitted to IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT2014)● Congduan Li, J. Apte, J.M. Walsh, and S. Weber. A new computational approach for determining rate regions

and optimal codes for coded networks. In Network Coding (NetCod), 2013 International Symposium on, pages 1–6, 2013.

● Congduan Li, John MacLaren Walsh, Steven Weber. Matroid bounds on the region of entropic vectors. In 51th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, October 2013.

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