Lossy transmission over a relay channel in which the relay has access to
correlated side information is considered. First, a joint source-channel
decode-and-forward scheme is proposed for general discrete memoryless sources
and channels. Then the Gaussian relay channel where the source and the side
information are jointly Gaussian is analyzed. For this Gaussian model, several
new source-channel cooperation schemes are introduced and analyzed in terms of
the squared-error distortion at the destination. A comparison of the proposed
upper bounds with the cut-set lower bound is given, and it is seen that joint
source-channel cooperation improves the reconstruction quality significantly.
Moreover, the performance of the joint code is close to the lower bound on
distortion for a wide range of source and channel parameters.Comment: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 6 - 11, 200