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We consider the problem of detecting the presence of a spatially correlated multichannel signal corrupted by additive Gaussian noise (i.i.d across sensors). No prior knowledge is assumed about the system parameters such as the noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Vidyadhar Upadhya , Devendra Jalihal

In this paper, we tackle decision fusion for distributed detection in a randomly-deployed clustered wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating over a non-ideal multiple access channels (MACs), i.e. considering Rayleigh fading, pathloss and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sami Aldalahmeh , Domenico Ciuonzo

Detection with high dimensional multimodal data is a challenging problem when there are complex inter- and intra- modal dependencies. While several approaches have been proposed for dependent data fusion (e.g., based on copula theory),…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-14 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, a new cooperation structure for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks is proposed which outperforms the existing commonly-used ones in terms of energy efficiency. The efficiency is achieved in the proposed design by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Younes Abdi , Tapani Ristaniemi

We study the problem of distributed and rate-adaptive feature compression for linear regression. A set of distributed sensors collect disjoint features of regressor data. A fusion center is assumed to contain a pretrained linear regression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Aditya Deshmukh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Gunjan Verma

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

We consider a distributed detection problem where measurements at each sensor follow a general parametric distribution. The network does not have a central processing unit or fusion center (FC). Thus, each node takes some measurements, does…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Juan Maya , Leonardo Rey Vega

We investigate the problem of jointly testing two hypotheses and estimating a random parameter based on data that is observed sequentially by sensors in a distributed network. In particular, we assume the data to be drawn from a Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Dominik Reinhard , Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

This paper addresses distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) over a network of sensors having different fields-of-view (FoVs). Specifically, a cardinality probability hypothesis density (CPHD) filter is run at each sensor node. Due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Guchong Li , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Wei Yi , Lingjiang Kong

In this paper, distributed Bayesian detection problems with unknown prior probabilities of hypotheses are considered. The sensors obtain observations which are conditionally dependent across sensors and their probability density functions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Xiaojing Shen , Pramod K. Varshney , Yunmin Zhu

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

In this article, we consider the detection of a localized source emitting a signal using a wireless sensor network (WSN). We consider that geographically distributed sensor nodes obtain energy measurements and compute cooperatively and in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-15 Juan Augusto Maya , Leonardo Rey Vega

This paper studies recursive composite hypothesis testing in a network of sparsely connected agents. The network objective is to test a simple null hypothesis against a composite alternative concerning the state of the field, modeled as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Anit Kumar Sahu , Soummya Kar

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 paper investigates the problem of linear spatial collaboration for distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks. In this context, the sensors share their local noisy (and potentially spatially correlated) observations with each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohammad Fanaei , Matthew C. Valenti , Abbas Jamalipour , Natalia A. Schmid

The problem of decentralized detection in a sensor network subjected to a total average power constraint and all nodes sharing a common bandwidth is investigated. The bandwidth constraint is taken into account by assuming non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sudharman K. Jayaweera

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

In this preliminary work, we study the problem of {\it distributed} authentication in wireless networks. Specifically, we consider a system where multiple Bob (sensor) nodes listen to a channel and report their {\it correlated} measurements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Ammar Mahmood , Waqas Aman , M. Ozair Iqbal , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Qammer H. Abbasi

This work introduces a novel approach for generating conditional probabilistic rainfall forecasts with temporal and spatial dependence. A two-step procedure is employed. Firstly, marginal location-specific distributions are jointly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-31 David Huk , Rilwan A. Adewoyin , Ritabrata Dutta

We propose a novel consensus notion, called "partial consensus", for distributed GM-PHD (Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density) fusion based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) sensor network, in which only highly-weighted posterior Gaussian…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Tiancheng Li , Juan M Corchado , Shudong Sun