  We consider vector-quantized (VQ) transmission of compressed sensing (CS)
measurements over noisy channels. Adopting mean-square error (MSE) criterion to
measure the distortion between a sparse vector and its reconstruction, we
derive channel-optimized quantization principles for encoding CS measurement
vector and reconstructing sparse source vector. The resulting necessary optimal
conditions are used to develop an algorithm for training channel-optimized
vector quantization (COVQ) of CS measurements by taking the end-to-end
distortion measure into account.
