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The $L$ -link binary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) problem under logarithmic loss is investigated in this paper. A quantization splitting technique is applied to convert the problem under consideration to a $(2L-1)$ -step successive Wyner-Ziv (WZ) problem, for which a practical coding scheme is proposed. In the proposed scheme, Low-Density Generator-Matrix (LDGM) codes are used for binary quantization while Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes are used for syndrome generation; the decoder performs successive decoding based on the received syndromes and produces a soft reconstruction of the remote source. The simulation results indicate that the rate-distortion performance of the proposed scheme can approach the theoretical inner bound based on binary-symmetric test-channel models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose an efficient coding scheme for the binary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) problem under logarithmic loss criterion. Courtade and Weissman obtained the exact rate-distortion bound for a two-link binary CEO problem under this criterion. We find optimal parameters of the binary symmetric test-channel model for the encoder of each link by using the given bound. Furthermore, an efficient coding scheme based on compound low-density generator matrix (LDGM)–low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented to achieve the theoretical rates. In the proposed encoding scheme, a binary quantizer using LDGM codes and a syndrome generator using LDPC codes are applied. The proposed decoder employs a sum-product algorithm and a soft estimator to produce an approximate a posteriori distribution of the source bits given the data received through both links. Our numerical examples verify a close performance of the proposed coding scheme to the theoretical bound in several cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]