Joint Source Channel Coding with Side Information Using Hybrid Digital Analog Codes

TL;DR

This paper introduces hybrid digital-analog coding schemes for transmitting analog sources over Gaussian channels with interference or side information, extending existing schemes and demonstrating multiple optimal solutions.

Contribution

It presents novel hybrid digital-analog coding schemes based on Costa and Wyner-Ziv, extending prior work to interference and side information scenarios with multiple optimal solutions.

Findings

Schemes achieve optimal distortion in interference and side information cases.

Multiple schemes exist for the same distortion performance.

Applications include SNR mismatch and bandwidth compression scenarios.

Abstract

We study the joint source channel coding problem of transmitting an analog source over a Gaussian channel in two cases - (i) the presence of interference known only to the transmitter and (ii) in the presence of side information known only to the receiver. We introduce hybrid digital analog forms of the Costa and Wyner-Ziv coding schemes. Our schemes are based on random coding arguments and are different from the nested lattice schemes by Kochman and Zamir that use dithered quantization. We also discuss superimposed digital and analog schemes for the above problems which show that there are infinitely many schemes for achieving the optimal distortion for these problems. This provides an extension of the schemes by Bross et al to the interference/side information case. We then discuss applications of the hybrid digital analog schemes for transmitting under a channel signal-to-noise ratio mismatch and for broadcasting a Gaussian source with bandwidth compression.