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We examine power spectrum estimation from wide-sense stationary signals received at different wireless sensors. We organize multiple sensors into several groups, where each group estimates the temporal correlation only at particular lags,…

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We study how the amount of correlation between observations collected by distinct sensors/learners affects data collection and collaboration strategies by analyzing Fisher information and the Cramer-Rao bound. In particular, we consider a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , Daniel S. Menasche , Don Towsley

Designing resource allocation strategies for power constrained sensor network in the presence of correlated data often gives rise to intractable problem formulations. In such situations, applying well-known strategies derived from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney , Hao Chen

In this work, we propose a joint collaboration-compression framework for sequential estimation of a random vector parameter in a resource constrained wireless sensor network (WSN). Specifically, we propose a framework where the local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Xiancheng Cheng , Prashant Khanduri , Boxiao Chen , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we address the problem of simultaneous classification and estimation of hidden parameters in a sensor network with communications constraints. In particular, we consider a network of noisy sensors which measure a common…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Fabio Fagnani , Sophie M. Fosson , Chiara Ravazzi

Decentralized state estimation in a communication-constrained sensor network is considered. The exchanged estimates are dimension-reduced to reduce the communication load using a linear mapping to a lower-dimensional space. The mean squared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Robin Forsling , Fredrik Gustafsson , Zoran Sjanic , Gustaf Hendeby

In this work, we investigate direction finding in the presence of sensor gain uncertainties and directional perturbations for sensor array processing in a multi-frequency scenario. Specifically, we adopt a distributed optimization scheme in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Martin Brossard , Virginie Ollier , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

Interconnecting multiple sensor networks is a relatively new research field which has emerged in the Wireless Sensor Network domain. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have typically been seen as logically separate, and few works have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Sougata Pal , Simon Oechsner , Boris Bellalta , Miquel Oliver

In distributed detection systems with wireless sensor networks, the communication between sensors and a fusion center is not perfect due to interference and limited transmitter power at the sensors to combat noise at the fusion center's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Xin Zhang , H. Vincent Poor , Mung Chiang

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

Cooperative spectrum sensing is a robust strategy that enhances the detection probability of primary licensed users. However, a large number of detectors reporting to a fusion center for a final decision causes significant delay and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Laila Hesham , Ahmed Sultan , Mohammed Nafie

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed sequential detection using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in the presence of imperfect communication channels between the sensors and the fusion center (FC). We assume that sensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Shan Zhang , Prashant Khanduri , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper investigates the problem of consensus-based distributed control of linear time-invariant multi-channel systems subject to unknown inputs. A distributed observer-based control framework is proposed, within which observer nodes and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ganghui Cao , Xunyuan Yin

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

This paper is concerned with distributed limited memory prediction for continuous-time linear stochastic systems with multiple sensors. A distributed fusion with the weighted sum structure is applied to the optimal local limited memory…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-02-18 Ha-ryong Song , Vladimir Shin

The paper studies distributed static parameter (vector) estimation in sensor networks with nonlinear observation models and noisy inter-sensor communication. It introduces \emph{separably estimable} observation models that generalize the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-05-21 Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura , Kavita Ramanan

We consider distributed estimation of a Gaussian vector with a linear observation model in an inhomogeneous wireless sensor network, where a fusion center (FC) reconstructs the unknown vector, using a linear estimator. Sensors employ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Alireza Sani , Azadeh Vosoughi

In this paper, we aim to design the optimal sensor collaboration strategy for the estimation of time-varying parameters, where collaboration refers to the act of sharing measurements with neighboring sensors prior to transmission to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Sijia Liu , Swarnendu Kar , Makan Fardad , Pramod K. Varshney

Effective resource allocation in sensor networks, IoT systems, and distributed computing is essential for applications such as environmental monitoring, surveillance, and smart infrastructure. Sensors or agents must optimize their resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , Daniel S. Menasché , Don Towsley

In this paper, we study the framework of collaborative inference, or edge ensembles. This framework enables multiple edge devices to improve classification accuracy by exchanging intermediate features rather than raw observations. However,…

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