A lattice compress-and-forward scheme
Yiwei Song, Natasha Devroye · 2011
We present a nested lattice-code-based strategy that achieves the random-coding based Compress-and-Forward (CF) rate for the three node Gaussian relay channel. To do so, we first outline a lattice-based strategy for the (X + Z1, X + Z2) Wyner-Ziv lossy source-coding with side-information problem in Gaussian noise, a re-interpretation of the nested lattice-code-based Gaussian Wyner-Ziv scheme presented by Zamir, Shamai, and Erez. We use the notation (X + Z1, X + Z2) Wyner-Ziv to mean that the source is of the form X + Z1and the side-information at the receiver is of the form X+Z2, for independent Gaussian X, Z1and Z2. We use this (X + Z1, X + Z2) Wyner-Ziv scheme to implement a “structured” or lattice-code-based CF scheme for the Gaussian relay channel which achieves the same rate as the Cover-El Gamal CF rate achieved by random Gaussian codebooks.