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Design of Binary Quantizers for Distributed Detection under Secrecy Constraints

Information Theory 2015-09-08 v2 Cryptography and Security Systems and Control math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the design of distributed detection networks in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). We consider the problem of designing binary quantizers at the sensors that maximize the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence at the fusion center (FC), subject to a tolerable constraint on the KL Divergence at Eve. In the case of i.i.d. received symbols at both the FC and Eve, we prove that the structure of the optimal binary quantizers is a likelihood ratio test (LRT). We also present an algorithm to find the threshold of the optimal LRT, and illustrate it for the case of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) observation models at the sensors. In the case of non-i.i.d. received symbols at both FC and Eve, we propose a dynamic-programming based algorithm to find efficient quantizers at the sensors. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed network design.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.8100,
  title  = {Design of Binary Quantizers for Distributed Detection under Secrecy Constraints},
  author = {V. Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla and Pramod K. Varshney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8100},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 7 figures; Submitted to IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing

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