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Energy efficiency is a key requirement in the design of wireless sensor networks. While most theoretical studies only account for the energy requirements of communication, the sensing process, which includes measurements and compression,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Xi Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

We present and analyze a joint source-channel coding strategy for the transmission of a Gaussian source across a Gaussian channel in n channel uses per source symbol. Among all such strategies, our scheme has the following properties: i)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Marius Kleiner , Bixio Rimoldi

Recent works have shown that modern machine learning techniques can provide an alternative approach to the long-standing joint source-channel coding (JSCC) problem. Very promising initial results, superior to popular digital schemes that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Tze-Yang Tung , David Burth Kurka , Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz

It is known that, as opposed to point-to-point channel, separate source and channel coding is not optimal in general for sending correlated sources over multiuser channels. In some works joint source-channel coding has been investigated for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sajjad Bahrami , Behrooz Razeghi , Mostafa Monemizadeh , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani

Accurate and timely image transmission is critical for emerging time-sensitive applications such as remote sensing in satellite-assisted Internet of Things. However, the bandwidth limitation poses a significant challenge in existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Xiaolei Yang , Zijing Wang , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying random process, code and transmit those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

One of the main challenges facing wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the limited power resources available at small sensor nodes. It is therefore desired to reduce the power consumption of sensors while keeping the distortion between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Seyed Hamed Mousavi , Javad Haghighat , Walaa Hamouda , Reza Dastbasteh

Learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the transmission efficiency of wireless networks. However, existing methods typically rely on extensive end-to-end training, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Jihong Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kaibin Huang , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, we exploit the theory of compressive sensing to perform detection of a random source in a dense sensor network. When the sensors are densely deployed, observations at adjacent sensors are highly correlated while those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we investigate communication strategies for the multiple access channel with feedback and correlated sources (MACFCS). The MACFCS models a wireless sensor network scenario in which sensors distributed throughout an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Lawrence Ong , Mehul Motani

We consider the transmission of spatially correlated analog information in a wireless sensor network (WSN) through fading single-input and multiple-output (SIMO) multiple access channels (MACs) with low-latency requirements. A lattice-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Pedro Suárez-Casal , Óscar Fresnedo , Darian Pérez-Adán , Luis Castedo

A new approach to joint source-channel coding is presented in the context of communicating correlated sources over multiple access channels. Similar to the separation architecture, the joint source-channel coding system architecture in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Paolo Minero , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

Sparse coding networks, which utilize unsupervised learning to maximize coding efficiency, have successfully reproduced response properties found in primary visual cortex \cite{AN:OlshausenField96}. However, conventional sparse coding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-25 William K. Coulter , Christopher J. Hillar , Friedrich T. Sommer

We consider the image transmission problem over a noisy wireless channel via deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) along with a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) at the receiver. Specifically, we are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Selim F. Yilmaz , Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Wei Han , Lei Deng , Deniz Gunduz

Generative joint source-channel coding (GJSCC) has emerged as a new Deep JSCC paradigm for achieving high-fidelity and robust image transmission under extreme wireless channel conditions, such as ultra-low bandwidth and low signal-to-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Kailin Tan , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Guo Lu , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

We consider a wireless sensor network, consisting of N heterogeneous sensors and a fusion center (FC), tasked with solving a binary distributed detection problem. Sensors communicate directly with the FC over orthogonal fading channels.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Ghazaleh Ardeshiri , Azadeh Vosoughi

Deep joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) has emerged as a robust alternative to traditional separate coding for communications through wireless channels. Existing DJSCC approaches focus primarily on point-to-point wireless communication…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Jiangyuan Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

We consider a multi-hop wireless sensor network that measures sparse events and propose a simple forwarding protocol based on Compressed Sensing (CS) which does not need any sophisticated Media Access Control (MAC) scheduling, neither a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Megumi Kaneko , Khaldoun Al Agha

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying random process, code and transmit those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

We consider a monitoring application where sensors periodically report data to a common receiver in a time division multiplex fashion. The sensors are constrained by the limited and unpredictable energy availability provided by Energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Chiara Pielli , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi