We consider a state estimation problem where observations are made by multiple sensors. These observations are communicated over a lossy wireless network to a central base station that computes estimates via a Kalman filter. The goal is to determine the optimal location of the base station under a certain class of packet loss probability models. It is shown in the two sensor case that the base station is optimally located at one of the sensor locations. Empirical evidence suggests that the result holds in some generality.
@article{arxiv.0809.4089,
title = {On base station localization for state estimation over lossy networks},
author = {Ufuk Topcu and Kenneth Hsu and Kameshwar Poolla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4089},
year = {2008}
}