FR2.R7.4

Coded Kalman Filtering over MIMO Gaussian Channels with Feedback

Barron Han, California Institute of Technology, United States; Oron Sabag, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Victoria Kostina, Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology, United States

Session:
Information-theoretic Control

Track:
4: Control and Information Theory

Location:
VIP

Presentation Time:
Fri, 12 Jul, 12:30 - 12:50

Session Chair:
Michael Lentmaier,
Abstract
We consider the problem of remotely stabilizing a linear dynamical system. In this setting, a sensor co-located with the system communicates the system's state to a controller over a noisy communication channel with feedback. The objective of the controller (decoder) is to use the channel outputs to estimate the vector state with finite zero-delay mean squared error (MSE) at the infinite horizon. It has been shown in [1] that for a vector Gauss-Markov source and either a single-input multiple-output (SIMO) or a multiple-input single-output (MISO) channel, linear codes require the minimum capacity to achieve finite MSE. This paper considers the more general problem of linear zero-delay joint-source channel coding (JSCC) of a vector-valued source over a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian channel with feedback. We study sufficient and necessary conditions for linear codes to achieve finite MSE. For sufficiency, we introduce a coding scheme where each unstable source mode is allocated to a single channel for estimation. Our proof for the necessity of this scheme relies on a matrix-algebraic conjecture that we prove to be true if either the source or channel is scalar. We show that linear codes achieve finite MSE for a scalar source over a MIMO channel if and only if the best scalar sub-channel can achieve finite MSE. Finally, we provide a new counter-example demonstrating that linear codes are generally sub-optimal for coding over MIMO channels.
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