Source Broadcasting and Asymmetric Data Transmission With Bandwidth Expansion

We consider the broadcasting of a scalar memoryless Gaussian source over a two-user Gaussian broadcast channel with bandwidth expansion. In concurrent with the source description, a message that should be decoded reliably just by the “higher quality” user is sent. Conditioned on the message rate, we derive a necessary condition for the achievability of a mean-squared-error distortion pair at the two receivers, which extends the Reznic-Feder-Zamir bound. This necessary condition and a sufficient condition that we derive establish the set of achievable energy-distortion exponents for this setting.