Publication
An efficient distributed source coding system with two encoders and dependent data streams must remove two kinds of redundancy: redundancy in each stream and between the two streams. The striking result of Slepian and Wolf showed that the latter can be eliminated even if each encoder only observes one of the source streams. The coding technique that permits to achieve this is often referred to as "binning." In large source networks, binning can result in considerable savings in terms of encoding rate.
Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Adriano Pastore, Chen Feng
Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou, Kuan Tung