1The Non-existence of Length-5 Perfect Slepian-Wolf Codes of Three Sources

Abstract—We consider Slepian-Wolf coding of multiple sources and extend the packing bound and the notion of perfect code from conventional channel coding to SW coding with more than two sources. Moreover, we show that there does not exist perfect Slepian-Wolf code of length-5 for three sources. Index Terms—Slepian-Wolf coding, distributed source coding, perfect code I