Source and channel coding with action-dependent partially known two-sided state information

Abstract

We consider a source coding problem where the encoder can take actions that influence the availability and/or quality of the side information which is available partially and noncausally at the encoder and the decoder. We then characterize the associated achievable tradeoffs between rate, distortion, and cost. In addition, we state and discuss a capacity result for the channel coding dual problem where the formula duality of special cases is recognized.