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We present a synchronization algorithm to let nodes in a sensor network simultaneously execute a task at a given point in time. In contrast to other time synchronization algorithms we do not provide a global time basis that is shared on all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Tobias Baumgartner , Sandor P. Fekete , Winfried Hellmann , Alexander Kroeller

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 recent years, UWB has garnered widespread attention in academia and industry due to its low power consumption, wide bandwidth, and high time resolution characteristics. This paper introduces the design of an asynchronous IR-UWB…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Fan Liu , Bofeng Zheng , Tingting Zhang , Qinyu Zhang

In a wireless network, gathering information at the base station about mobile users based only on uplink channel measurements is an interesting challenge. Indeed, accessing the users locations and predicting their downlink channels would be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Luc Le Magoarou

When nodes in a mobile network use relative noisy measurements with respect to their neighbors to estimate their positions, the overall connectivity and geometry of the measurement network has a critical influence on the achievable…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Jerome Le Ny , Simon Chauvière

Positioning with one single communication between base stations and user devices can effectively save air time and thus expand the user volume to infinite. However, this usually demands accurate synchronization between base stations.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-27 Sihao Zhao , Xiaowei Cui , Shuang Xu , Mingquan Lu

This paper proposes a novel time synchronization protocol inspired by the adaptive Newton search algorithm. The clock model of nodes are modeled as an adaptive filter and a pairwise steady state and convergence analyses are presented. A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-16 Ramadan Abdul-Rashid , Azzedine Zerguine

Source localization plays a key role in many applications including radar, wireless and underwater communications. Among various localization methods, the most popular ones are Time-Of-Arrival (TOA), Time-Difference-Of-Arrival (TDOA), and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Nitesh Sahu , Linlong Wu , Prabhu Babu , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we present a maximum likelihood (ML) based time synchronization algorithm for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). The proposed technique takes advantage of soft information retrieved from the soft demapper for the time delay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Imen Nasr , Leila Najjar Atallah , Sofiane Cherif , Jianxiao Yang , Kulun Wang

Joint optimization of scheduling and estimation policies is considered for a system with two sensors and two non-collocated estimators. Each sensor produces an independent and identically distributed sequence of random variables, and each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Mukul Gagrani , Ashutosh Nayyar , Urbashi Mitra

We present a novel application of a recently-proposed matrix-parametrized proximal splitting method to sensor network localization, the problem of estimating the locations of a set of sensors using only noisy pairwise distance information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Peter Barkley , Robert L. Bassett

In this paper a new distributed asynchronous algorithm is proposed for time synchronization in networks with random communication delays, measurement noise and communication dropouts. Three different types of the drift correction algorithm…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Milos S. Stankovic , Srdjan S. Stankovic , Karl Henrik Johansson

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted enormous interest thanks to their ability to overcome line-of-sight blockages in mmWave systems, enabling in turn accurate localization with minimal infrastructure. Less investigated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Alessio Fascista , Musa Furkan Keskin , Angelo Coluccia , Henk Wymeersch , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

We consider the problem of distributed estimation under the Bayesian criterion and explore the design of optimal quantizers in such a system. We show that, for a conditionally unbiased and efficient estimator at the fusion center and when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Aditya Vempaty , Hao He , Biao 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

Accurately estimating the position of a wireless emitter in a multipath environment based on samples received at various base stations (in known locations) has been extensively explored in the literature. Existing approaches often assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Asaf Afriat , Dan Raphaeli , Oded Bialer

Accurate estimation of the position of network nodes is essential, e.g., in localization, geographic routing, and vehicular networks. Unfortunately, typical positioning techniques based on ranging or on velocity and angular measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alessio De Angelis , Carlo Fischione

Accurate time synchronization is essential for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, where multiple distributed nodes must share a common time base for coordinated sensing and data fusion. However, conventional synchronization approaches suffer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ziyao Zhou , Tiancheng Cao , Chen Shen , Jiaqi Zhang , Yuting Liu , Hen-Wei Huang

In this study, the hybrid Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) is developed for target localization, to establish the sensitivity of the estimation mean-square error (MSE) to the level of phase synchronization mismatch in coherent Multiple-Input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-30 Hana Godrich , Alexander M. Haimovich , H. Vincent Poor

The proliferation of wireless communications networks over the past decades, combined with the scarcity of the wireless spectrum, have motivated a significant effort towards increasing the throughput of wireless networks. One of the major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Emeka Abakasanga , Nir Shlezinger , Ron Dabora