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DISCUS is an acronym for ''Distributed Source Coding Using Syndromes''.


INTRODUCTION

DISCUS is a particular scheme used in Source Coding which is designed to
achieve the Slepian-Wolf Bound by using Channel Codes .


HISTORY

DISCUS was invented by researchers ''SS Pradhan'' and ''K Ramachandran'', in their seminal
paper ''Distributed source coding using syndromes (DISCUS): design and construction''
published in the ''Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on, 2003''.


PRINCIPLE

DISCUS is a source coding scheme for correlated sources, which are common in the case
of sensor readings from a dense group of Wireless Sensor Networks . DISCUS
tries to model a particular source correlation as a channel noise, and tries to
find a channel code that performs well for this channel noise. This channel code,
is then proved to be the best code that can perform as a source code for the
correlated data sources.


VARIATIONS

Many variations of DISCUS are presented in related literature. One such popular scheme
is the ''Channel Code Partitioning'' scheme, which is an a-priori scheme, to reach the
Slepian-Wolf Bound . Many papers illustrate simulations and experiments on channel code partitioning using the
Turbo Codes , Hamming Codes and Irregular Repeat Accumulate Codes .