3 research outputs found
A Constrained Channel Coding Approach to Joint Communication and Channel Estimation
A joint communication and channel state estimation problem is investigated,
in which reliable information transmission over a noisy channel, and
high-fidelity estimation of the channel state, are simultaneously sought. The
tradeoff between the achievable information rate and the estimation distortion
is quantified by formulating the problem as a constrained channel coding
problem, and the resulting capacity-distortion function characterizes the
fundamental limit of the joint communication and channel estimation problem.
The analytical results are illustrated through case studies, and further issues
such as multiple cost constraints, channel uncertainty, and capacity per unit
distortion are also briefly discussed.Comment: Submitted to ISIT 200
Joint Transmission and State Estimation: A Constrained Channel Coding Approach
A scenario involving a source, a channel, and a destination, where the
destination is interested in {\em both} reliably reconstructing the message
transmitted by the source and estimating with a fidelity criterion the state of
the channel, is considered. The source knows the channel statistics, but is
oblivious to the actual channel state realization. Herein it is established
that a distortion constraint for channel state estimation can be reduced to an
additional cost constraint on the source input distribution, in the limit of
large coding block length. A newly defined capacity-distortion function thus
characterizes the fundamental tradeoff between transmission rate and state
estimation distortion. It is also shown that non-coherent communication coupled
with channel state estimation conditioned on treating the decoded message as
training symbols achieves the capacity-distortion function. Among the various
examples considered, the capacity-distortion function for a memoryless Rayleigh
fading channel is characterized to within 1.443 bits at high signal-to-noise
ratio. The constrained channel coding approach is also extended to multiple
access channels, leading to a coupled cost constraint on the input
distributions for the transmitting sources
Communication over Quantum Channels with Parameter Estimation
Communication over a random-parameter quantum channel when the decoder is
required to reconstruct the parameter sequence is considered. We study
scenarios that include either strictly-causal, causal, or non-causal channel
side information (CSI) available at the encoder, and also when CSI is not
available. This model can be viewed as a form of quantum metrology, and as the
quantum counterpart of the classical rate-and-state channel with state
estimation at the decoder. Regularized formulas for the capacity-distortion
regions are derived. In the special case of measurement channels, single-letter
characterizations are derived for the strictly causal and causal settings.
Furthermore, in the more general case of entanglement-breaking channels, a
single-letter characterization is derived when CSI is not available. As a
consequence, we obtain regularized formulas for the capacity of
random-parameter quantum channels with CSI, generalizing previous results by
Boche et al. (2016) on classical-quantum channels. Bosonic dirty paper coding
is introduced as a consequence, where we demonstrate that the optimum is not
necessarily the MMSE estimator coefficient as in the classical setting