On capacity regions of two-receiver broadcast packet erasure channels with feedback and memory

The two-receiver broadcast packet erasure channel with feedback and memory is studied. Memory is modelled using a finite-state Markov chain representing a channel state. Outer and inner bounds on the capacity region are derived when the channel state is strictly causally known at the transmitter. The bounds are both formulated in terms of feasibility problems and they are matching in all but one of the constraints. The results are extended to feedback with larger delay. Numerical results show that the gains offered through feedback can be quite large.