English
Related papers

Related papers: Distributed source coding in dense sensor networks

200 papers

Lossy transmission over a relay channel in which the relay has access to correlated side information is considered. First, a joint source-channel decode-and-forward scheme is proposed for general discrete memoryless sources and channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

We investigate the problem of jointly testing two hypotheses and estimating a random parameter based on data that is observed sequentially by sensors in a distributed network. In particular, we assume the data to be drawn from a Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Dominik Reinhard , Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

The distributed subgradient method (DSG) is a widely discussed algorithm to cope with large-scale distributed optimization problems in the arising machine learning applications. Most exisiting works on DSG focus on ideal communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Zhaoyue Xia , Jun Du , Yong Ren

We consider the problem of sparse normal means estimation in a distributed setting with communication constraints. We assume there are $M$ machines, each holding $d$-dimensional observations of a $K$-sparse vector $\mu$ corrupted by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-15 Chen Amiraz , Robert Krauthgamer , Boaz Nadler

Sensing networks underpin applications from fundamental physics to real-world engineering. Recently, distributed quantum sensing (DQS) has been investigated to boost the sensing performance, yet current schemes typically rely on entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Binke Xia , Zhaotong Cui , Jingzheng Huang , Yuxiang Yang , Guihua Zeng

In this work we investigate the behavior of the distortion threshold that can be guaranteed in joint source-channel coding, to within a prescribed excess-distortion probability. We show that the gap between this threshold and the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Da Wang , Amir Ingber , Yuval Kochman

We consider the problem of making distributed computations robust to noise, in particular to worst-case (adversarial) corruptions of messages. We give a general distributed interactive coding scheme which simulates any asynchronous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ran Gelles , Bernhard Haeupler

We examine the problem of creating an encoded distributed storage representation of a data object for a network of mobile storage nodes so as to achieve the optimal recovery delay. A source node creates a single data object and disseminates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

We introduce a neighborhood-based data access model for distributed coded storage allocation. Storage nodes are connected in a generic network and data is accessed locally: a user accesses a randomly chosen storage node, which subsequently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Dusan Jakovetic , Aleksandar Minja , Dragana Bajovic , Dejan Vukobratovic

In this work, lossy distributed compression of pairs of correlated sources is considered. Conventionally, Shannon's random coding arguments -- using randomly generated unstructured codebooks whose blocklength is taken to be asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) methods have achieved remarkable success in wireless image transmission. However, these methods either focus on conventional distortion metrics that do not necessarily yield high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Ming Ye , Kui Cai , Cunhua Pan , Zhen Mei , Wanting Yang , Chunguo Li

In this work, we consider the problem of distributed computing of functions of structured sources, focusing on the classical setting of two correlated sources and one user that seeks the outcome of the function while benefiting from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Derya Malak

This paper presents novel Gaussian process decentralized data fusion algorithms exploiting the notion of agent-centric support sets for distributed cooperative perception of large-scale environmental phenomena. To overcome the limitations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-17 Ruofei Ouyang , Kian Hsiang Low

We consider the problem of designing decentralized schemes for coded caching. In this problem there are $K$ users each caching $M$ files out of a library of $N$ total files. The question is to minimize $R$, the number of broadcast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Yitao Chen , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Markov random fields are used to model high dimensional distributions in a number of applied areas. Much recent interest has been devoted to the reconstruction of the dependency structure from independent samples from the Markov random…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Guy Bresler , Elchanan Mossel , Allan Sly

This article introduces a novel communication paradigm for the unsourced, uncoordinated Gaussian multiple access problem. The major components of the envisioned framework are as follows. The encoded bits of every message are partitioned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Asit Pradhan , Vamsi Amalladinne , Avinash Vem , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

This paper addresses optimal decoding strategies in lossy compression where the assumed distribution for compressor design mismatches the actual (true) distribution of the source. This problem has immediate relevance in standardized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Saeed R. Khosravirad , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Ingrid van de Voorde

We consider replication-based distributed storage systems in which each node stores the same quantum of data and each data bit stored has the same replication factor across the nodes. Such systems are referred to as balanced distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Abhinav Vaishya , Athreya Chandramouli , Srikar Kale , Prasad Krishnan

This paper provides new error bounds on "consistent" reconstruction methods for signals observed from quantized random projections. Those signal estimation techniques guarantee a perfect matching between the available quantized data and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Laurent Jacques

In this paper we study the quantization stage that is implicit in any compressed sensing signal acquisition paradigm. We propose using Sigma-Delta quantization and a subsequent reconstruction scheme based on convex optimization. We prove…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Rayan Saab , Rongrong Wang , Ozgur Yilmaz