Expected Distortion with Fading Mimo Channel and Side Information Quality

English We consider the joint source-channel coding problem of sending a Gaussian source over a multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) fading channel when the decoder has additional correlated side information whose quality is also time-varying. We assume a block fading model for both the channel and side information qualities, and assume perfect state information at the receiver, while the transmitter has only a statistical knowledge. We are interested in the expected squared-error distortion for this system. We study separate source-channel coding, uncoded transmission and two joint sourcechannel transmission schemes based on joint decoding at the receiver: NBJD, that uses no explicit binning and joint decoding of the side information and the channel output at the decoder and HDA, that compresses the source and transmits the error. At the decoder, the quantized codeword is recovered by means of joint decoding of the error and the side information. We extend such techniques to hybrid digital-analog and multi-layer schemes. We study numerically the problem and give results in the finite SNR regime. We provide closed form expressions for the distortion exponent in the high SNR regime.