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Sequential estimation of a vector of linear regression coefficients is considered under both centralized and decentralized setups. In sequential estimation, the number of observations used for estimation is determined by the observed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-12-18 Yasin Yilmaz , George V. Moustakides , Xiaodong Wang

Hybrid transceivers are designed for linear decentralized estimation (LDE) in a mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) IoT network (IoTNe). For a noiseless fusion center (FC), it is demonstrated that the MSE performance is determined…

Classical estimation outputs a single point estimate of an unknown $d$-dimensional vector from an observation. In this paper, we study \emph{$k$-list estimation}, in which a single observation is used to produce a list of $k$ candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nikola Zlatanov , Amin Gohari , Farzad Shahrivari , Mikhail Rudakov

This paper pertains to the analysis and design of decentralized estimation schemes that make use of limited communication. Briefly, these schemes equip the sensors with scalar states that iteratively merge the measurements and the state of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Andreea B. Alexandru , Sergio Pequito , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich

This work considers distributed sensing and transmission of sporadic random samples. Lower bounds are derived for the reconstruction error of a single normally or uniformly-distributed finite-dimensional vector imperfectly measured by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Ayşe Ünsal , Raymond Knopp

This paper formulates and studies a general distributed field reconstruction problem using a dense network of noisy one-bit randomized scalar quantizers in the presence of additive observation noise of unknown distribution. A constructive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Ye Wang , Prakash Ishwar , Venkatesh Saligrama

This paper investigates new efficient transmission architectures for multi-satellite massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). We study the weighted sum-rate maximization problem in a multi-satellite system where multiple satellites…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Wenjing Cao , Yafei Wang , Jinshuo Zhang , Xiaofan Xu , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In recent years, decentralized sensor networks have garnered significant attention in the field of state estimation owing to enhanced robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance. Optimal fusion performance can be achieved under fully…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Ruifeng Dong , Ming Wang , Ning Liu , Tong Guo , Jiayi Kang , Xiaojing Shen , Yao Mao

In this article we consider the problems of distributed detection and estimation in wireless sensor networks. In the first part, we provide a general framework aimed to show how an efficient design of a sensor network requires a joint…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-08 Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti , Paolo Di Lorenzo

We derive lower bounds on the Bayes risk in decentralized estimation, where the estimator does not have direct access to the random samples generated conditionally on the random parameter of interest, but only to the data received from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Aolin Xu , Maxim Raginsky

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for frequency offsets estimation in decentralized systems. With the proposed algorithm, each node estimates its frequency offsets by local computations and limited exchange of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Jian Du , Yik-Chung Wu

Communication of quantized information is frequently followed by a computation. We consider situations of \emph{distributed functional scalar quantization}: distributed scalar quantization of (possibly correlated) sources followed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Vinith Misra , Vivek K Goyal , Lav R. Varshney

Towards the informed design of large-scale distributed data-gathering architectures under real-world assumptions such as nonzero communication delays and unknown environment dynamics, this paper considers the effects of allowing feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-15 SooJean Han , Michelle Effros , Richard M. Murray

We introduce a new quantum communication protocol for the transmission of quantum information under collective noise. Our protocol utilizes a decoherence-free subspace in such a way that an optimal asymptotic transmission rate is achieved,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Michael Skotiniotis , Wolfgang Dür , Barbara Kraus

This paper presents an estimation approach within the framework of uplink massive machine-type communications (mMTC) that considers the energy limitations of the devices. We focus on a scenario where a group of sensors observe a set of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Sergi Liesegang , Olga Muñoz , Antonio Pascual-Iserte

This article is concerned with decentralized sequential testing of multiple hypotheses. In a sensor network system with limited local memory, raw observations are observed at the local sensors, and quantized into binary sensor messages that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-12 Yan Wang , Yajun Mei

This article is concerned with decentralized sequential testing of a normal mean $\mu$ with two-sided alternatives. It is assumed that in a single-sensor network system with limited local memory, i.i.d. normal raw observations are observed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-12 Yan Wang , Yajun Mei

A sensor network is considered where a sequence of random variables is observed at each sensor. At each time step, a processed version of the observations is transmitted from the sensors to a common node called the fusion center. At some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-21 Taposh Banerjee , Venugopal. V. Veeravalli

We propose an efficient protocol for decentralized training of deep neural networks from distributed data sources. The proposed protocol allows to handle different phases of model training equally well and to quickly adapt to concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Michael Kamp , Linara Adilova , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Peter Schlicht , Tim Wirtz , Stefan Wrobel