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This paper presents a technique that combines the occurrence of certain events, as observed by different sensors, in order to detect and classify objects. This technique explores the extent of dependence between features being observed by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-02 Siddharth Roheda , Hamid Krim , Zhi-Quan Luo , Tianfu Wu

We consider the problem of sequential signal detection in a multichannel system where the number and location of signals is a priori unknown. We assume that the data in each channel are sequentially observed and follow a general non-i.i.d.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Georgios Fellouris , Alexander G. Tartakovsky

Distributed change-point detection has been a fundamental problem when performing real-time monitoring using sensor-networks. We propose a distributed detection algorithm, where each sensor only exchanges CUSUM statistic with their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-09 Qinghua Liu , Rui Zhang , Yao Xie

A power constrained sensor network that consists of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC) is considered, where the goal is to estimate a random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework, the sensor nodes may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

In this letter, we consider the detection of sparse stochastic signals with sensor networks (SNs), where the fusion center (FC) collects 1-bit data from the local sensors and then performs global detection. For this problem, a newly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Chengxi Li , You He , Xueqian Wang , Gang Li , Pramod K. Varshney

This work investigates Distributed Detection (DD) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), where spatially distributed sensors transmit binary decisions over a shared flat-fading channel. To enhance fusion efficiency, a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Domenico Ciuonzo , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Ciro D'Elia

Fundamental limits on the error probabilities of a family of decentralized detection algorithms (eg., the social learning rule proposed by Lalitha et al. over directed graphs are investigated. In decentralized detection, a network of nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bruce , Huang , I-Hsiang Wang

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

We consider a multi-object detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range sensors. This problem complements the widely considered decentralized detection problem where all sensors observe the same object. While the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Erhan B. Ermis , Venkatesh Saligrama

We study the large deviations performance, i.e., the exponential decay rate of the error probability, of distributed detection algorithms over random networks. At each time step $k$ each sensor: 1) averages its decision variable with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Joao Xavier , Bruno Sinopoli , Jose M. F. Moura

This work studies optimal detection for communication over diffusion-based molecular timing (DBMT) channels. The transmitter simultaneously releases multiple information particles, where the information is encoded in the time of release.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Yonathan Murin , Nariman Farsad , Mainak Chowdhury , Andrea Goldsmith

This paper is concerned with decentralized estimation of a Gaussian source using multiple sensors. We consider a diversity scheme where only the sensor with the best channel sends their measurements over a fading channel to a fusion center,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Alex S. Leong , Subhrakanti Dey

Anomaly detection has various applications including condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. The objective is to sense the environment, learn the normal system state, and then periodically classify whether the instantaneous state deviates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Kiril Ralinovski , Mario Goldenbaum , Sławomir Stańczak

The conventional non-coherent differential detection of continuous phase modulation (CPM) is quite robust to channel impairments such as phase and Doppler shifts. Its implementation is on top of that simple. It consists in multiplying the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Anouar Jerbi , Karine Amis , Frédéric Guilloud , Tarik Benaddi

A distributed detection problem over fading Gaussian multiple-access channels is considered. Sensors observe a phenomenon and transmit their observations to a fusion center using the amplify and forward scheme. The fusion center has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mahesh K. Banavar , Anthony D. Smith , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Andreas Spanias

This paper considers the real-time power quality monitoring in power grid systems. The goal is to detect the occurrence of disturbances in the nominal sinusoidal voltage/current signal as quickly as possible such that protection measures…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Shang Li , Xiaodong Wang

A recent emphasis of distributed learning research has been on federated learning (FL), in which model training is conducted by the data-collecting devices. Existing research on FL has mostly focused on a star topology learning architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

We consider the problem of decentralized hypothesis testing in a network of energy harvesting sensors, where sensors make noisy observations of a phenomenon and send quantized information about the phenomenon towards a fusion center. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Alla Tarighati , James Gross , Joakim Jalden

This paper proposes a novel consensus-based distributed filter over directed graphs under the collectively observability condition. The distributed filter is designed using an augmented leader-following information fusion strategy, and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Xiaoxu Lyu , Guanghui Wen , Yuezu Lv , Zhisheng Duan , Ling Shi

We consider a distributed detection problem within a wireless sensor network (WSN), where a substantial number of sensors cooperate to detect the existence of sparse stochastic signals. To achieve a trade-off between detection performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Linlin Mao , Shefeng Yan , Zeping Sui , Hongbin Li