Comments on Cut-Set Bounds on Network Function Computation

@article{Huang2015CommentsOC,
  title={Comments on Cut-Set Bounds on Network Function Computation},
  author={Cupjin Huang and Zihan Tan and Shenghao Yang and Xuan Guang},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},
  year={2015},
  volume={64},
  pages={6454-6459}
}
A function computation problem over a directed acyclic network has been considered in the literature, where a sink node is required to compute a target function correctly with the inputs arbitrarily generated at multiple source nodes. The network links are error free but capacity limited, and the intermediate nodes perform network coding. The computing rate of a network code is the average number of times that the target function is computed for one use of the network, i.e., each link in the… 
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