How many is a zillion? Sources of number distortion.

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The Expected Achievable Distortion of Two-User Decentralized Interference Channels

This paper concerns the transmission of two independent Gaussian sources over a two-user decentralized interference channel, assuming that the transmitters are unaware of the instantaneous CSIs. The availability of the channel state information at receivers (CSIR) is considered in two scenarios of perfect and imperfect CSIR. In the imperfect CSIR case, we consider a more practical assumption of...

A Novel 36-pulse rectifier with low kVA rate to reduce harmonic input current distortion

The increase in the number of pulses in multipulse rectifiers leads to a reduction in harmonic current distortion. But this increase in the number of pulses leads to an increase in kVA, cost, and complexity of the multi-pulse rectifiers. As a result, in industrial applications, 12-pulse rectifiers are mainly used due to their lightweight, simple transformers, and low kVA rate, and low cost. The...

On the Many-Help-One Problem with Independently Degraded Helpers

This work provides new results for the separated encoding of correlated discrete memoryless sources. We address the scenario where an arbitrary number of auxiliary sources (a.k.a. helpers) are supposed to help decode a single primary source errorless. The rate-distortion analysis of such a system establishes the so-called many-help-one problem. We focus on the case in which the auxiliary source...

Wave Interference in the Generation of Reflection- and Distortion-source Emissions

Although mammalian otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) have generally been regarded as originating through nonlinear electromechanical distortion, measurements of OAE phase made using frequency-scaled stimuli (e.g., a pure tone or a pair of tones with fixed frequency ratio f2/f1) are now understood as providing clear evidence for two fundamentally different types of emission [11,6]: distortion-source ...