English
Related papers

Related papers: Cloud-Assisted Remote Sensor Network Virtualizatio…

200 papers

The goal of decentralized optimization over a network is to optimize a global objective formed by a sum of local (possibly nonsmooth) convex functions using only local computation and communication. It arises in various application domains,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 John Duchi , Alekh Agarwal , Martin Wainwright

This paper presents a novel distributed algorithm for tracking a maneuvering target using bearing or direction of arrival measurements collected by a networked sensor array. The proposed approach is built on the dynamic average-consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Jemin George

We propose distributed deep neural networks (DDNNs) over distributed computing hierarchies, consisting of the cloud, the edge (fog) and end devices. While being able to accommodate inference of a deep neural network (DNN) in the cloud, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Surat Teerapittayanon , Bradley McDanel , H. T. Kung

We discuss an online decentralized decision making problem where the agents are coupled with affine inequality constraints. Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is used as the computation engine and we discuss the convergence…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Yuxiao Chen , Mario Santillo , Mrdjan Jankovic , Aaron D. Ames

Distributed inference/estimation in Bayesian framework in the context of sensor networks has recently received much attention due to its broad applicability. The variational Bayesian (VB) algorithm is a technique for approximating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-30 Junhao Hua , Chunguang Li

This work addresses the distributed estimation problem in a set membership framework. The agents of a network collect measurements which are affected by bounded errors, thus implying that the unknown parameters to be estimated belong to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Francesco Farina , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in order to handle exploding amount of data. In this paper, we study an important yet less visited distributed learning problem where features are inherently distributed or vertically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yaochen Hu , Peng Liu , Linglong Kong , Di Niu

Sequential attack detection in a distributed estimation system is considered, where each sensor successively produces one-bit quantized samples of a desired deterministic scalar parameter corrupted by additive noise. The unknown parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Jiangfan Zhang , Xiaodong Wang

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

We consider the problem of in-network compressed sensing from distributed measurements. Every agent has a set of measurements of a signal $x$, and the objective is for the agents to recover $x$ from their collective measurements using only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Stacy Patterson , Yonina C. Eldar , Idit Keidar

Distributed optimization algorithms have been studied extensively in the literature; however, underlying most algorithms is a linear consensus scheme, i.e. averaging variables from neighbors via doubly stochastic matrices. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Hsu Kao , Vijay Subramanian

This paper considers the problem of distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks (WSN), which is anticipated to support a wide range of applications such as the environmental monitoring, weather forecasting, and location estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Meng He , Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Shulong Zhang

The electrical network reconfiguration problem aims to minimize losses in a distribution system by adjusting switches while ensuring radial topology. The growing use of renewable energy and the complexity of managing modern power grids make…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yacine Mokhtari , Patrick Coirault , Emmanuel Moulay , Jérôme Le Ny , Didier Larraillet

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

Distributed optimization advances centralized machine learning methods by enabling parallel and decentralized learning processes over a network of computing nodes. This work provides an accelerated consensus-based distributed algorithm for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

Sensor scheduling is a well studied problem in signal processing and control with numerous applications. Despite its successful history, most of the related literature assumes the knowledge of the underlying probabilistic model of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained distributed optimization problem, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology, thus, nodes can only communicate with their neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

Recent approaches to distributed model fitting rely heavily on consensus ADMM, where each node solves small sub-problems using only local data. We propose iterative methods that solve {\em global} sub-problems over an entire distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Tom Goldstein , Gavin Taylor , Kawika Barabin , Kent Sayre

We study the problem of distributed adaptive estimation over networks where nodes cooperate to estimate physical parameters that can vary over both space and time domains. We use a set of basis functions to characterize the space-varying…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Reza Abdolee , Benoit Champagne , Ali H. Sayed

We consider the problem of communication-constrained collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer