Multiterminal source encoding with one distortion criterion

The authors unify earlier investigations concerning the encoding of two correlated sources (X/sub k/), (Y/sub k/) by means of separate encoders. Decoding is done by a single decoder which receives the outputs from both encoders. The reconstruction of (X/sub k/) is required to be perfect in the usual Shannon sense. The authors determine the admissible rate region R (D), where D is the distortion of the reconstruction of (Y/sub k/). The binary Hamming case is investigated explicitly.>