Paolo Minero, Sung Hoon Lim, and Young-Han Kim
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 1509–1523, April 2015.
Preliminary results appeared in Proceedings of the 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 851–858, Monticello, Illinois, September 2010, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 884–888, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2011, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1946–1950, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2011, and Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, pp. 919–922, Austin, Texas, December 2013.
Hybrid analog–digital coding has been used for several communication scenarios, such as joint source–channel coding of Gaussian sources over Gaussian channels and relay communication over Gaussian networks. In this paper, a generalized hybrid coding technique is proposed for communication over discrete memoryless and Gaussian systems, and its utility is demonstrated via three examples — lossy joint source–channel coding over multiple access channels, channel coding over two-way relay channels, and channel coding over diamond networks. The corresponding coding schemes recover and extend several existing results in the literature.