  A comparison between the joint and the successive decoding schemes for a
two-link case binary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) problem is presented. We
utilize the logarithmic loss as the criterion for measuring and comparing the
total distortion of the decoding techniques. The binary symmetric channel (BSC)
is considered as the test-channel model, which provides a theoretical
rate-distortion bound. Simulation results show that the joint decoding scheme
provides smaller compression rate and distortion values compared to the
successive decoding scheme. On the other hand the successive decoding method
has lower complexity; therefore, it is efficient for the cases with higher
number of links.
