“…12). Unfortunately, since one of the users (S b AB ) is only virtual, we cannot simply claim that the region of achievable rates in this virtual channel can be derived directly from the conventional cut-set bound analysis (see e.g., [18,32]), but rather a careful information-theoretic analysis would be required to identify the exact rate region. However, such analysis is far beyond the scope of this paper, and hence, for simplicity reasons, we only conjecture that the eligible source rates (r b , r s ) are limited by the conventional CC multiple-access capacity region [18,32], which can be defined by the following set of mutual informations I( ; ): …”