Tradeoff between efficiency and delay of distributed source coding for uplink transmissions in machine type communications

In this paper, we study the tradeoff of efficiency and delay of Slepian-Wolf distributed source coding (DSC). In the considered network, Machine-Type Communications (MTC) devices transmit correlated data to one base station, the data sources follow a multi-variate Gaussian distribution. To reduce the consumption of communication resources by massive MTC devices, Slepian-Wolf coding is adopted to eliminate the redundancy in uplink transmission....