Source transmission over relay channel with correlated relay side information

We consider transmission of a Gaussian source over a Gaussian relay channel, where the relay terminal has access to correlated side information. We propose several cooperative joint source-channel coding strategies that utilize both the broadcast nature of the wireless transmission and/or the availability of the correlated side information at the relay, and compare these to distortion lower bounds obtained by the cut-set arguments. In general, the best performing scheme depends on the correlation among the source and the relay signals, and the average link qualities. We illustrate that the strategies introduced in this paper perform very close to the lower bound in most cases. ©2007 IEEE.