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Accurate wireless localization underpins applications from autonomous systems to smart infrastructure. We study the mean-squared error (MSE) and conditional MSE (CMSE) of a practical fusion-based estimator in d-dimensional, stationary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Mengqi Ma , Aihua Xia

The problem of communicating sensor measurements over shared networks is prevalent in many modern large-scale distributed systems such as cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, and the internet of things. Due to bandwidth…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Marcos M. Vasconcelos

In this work, we study the problem of distributed mean estimation with $1$-bit communication constraints when the variance is unknown. We focus on the specific case where each user has access to one i.i.d. sample drawn from a distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ritesh Kumar , Shashank Vatedka

Deregulation of energy markets, penetration of renewables, advanced metering capabilities, and the urge for situational awareness, all call for system-wide power system state estimation (PSSE). Implementing a centralized estimator though is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-03 Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis

To strike a balance between energy efficiency and data quality control, this paper proposes a sensor censoring scheme for distributed sparse signal recovery via compressive-sensing based wireless sensor networks. In the proposed approach,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Jwo-Yuh Wu , Ming-Hsun Yang , Tsang-Yi Wang

Estimation problems in wireless sensor networks typically involve gathering and processing data from distributed sensors to infer the state of an environment at the fusion center. However, not all measurements contribute significantly to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Chen Quan , Geethu Joseph , Nitin Jonathan Myers

Interference-aware resource allocation of time slots and frequency channels in single-antenna, halfduplex radio wireless sensor networks (WSN) is challenging. Devising distributed algorithms for such task further complicates the problem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Panos N. Alevizos , Efthymios A. Vlachos , Aggelos Bletsas

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) enable a wealth of new applications where remote estimation is essential. Individual sensors simultaneously sense a dynamic process and transmit measured information over a shared channel to a central fusion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Yilin Mo , Emanuele Garone , Alessandro Casavola , Bruno Sinopoli

We consider the problem of optimal power allocation in a sensor network where the sensors observe a dynamic parameter in noise and coherently amplify and forward their observations to a fusion center (FC). The FC uses the observations in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Feng Jiang , Jie Chen , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We consider the problem of decentralized detection where peripheral nodes make noisy observations of a phenomenon and send quantized information about the phenomenon towards a fusion center over a sum-rate constrained multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Alla Tarighati , Joakim Jalden

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted considerable attention in recent years and motivate a host of new challenges for distributed signal processing. The problem of distributed or decentralized estimation has often been considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Joel B. Predd , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the following problem of decentralized statistical inference: given i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution, estimate an arbitrary quantile subject to limits on the number of bits exchanged. We analyze a standard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ram Rajagopal , Martin J. Wainwright

Remote estimation with an energy harvesting sensor with a limited data and energy buffer is considered. The sensor node observes an unknown Gaussian field and communicates its observations to a remote fusion center using the energy it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ayca Ozcelikkale , Tomas McKelvey , Mats Viberg

We consider minimum mean square error (MMSE) joint precoder and combiner design for single and multi carrier distributed beamforming systems with nonuniform per-antenna transmit power constraints. We show that, similar to the maximum-gain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-03 Riten Gupta , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

Distributed signal-processing algorithms in (wireless) sensor networks often aim to decentralize processing tasks to reduce communication cost and computational complexity or avoid reliance on a single device (i.e., fusion center) for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Matthias Blochberger , Filip Elvander , Randall Ali , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Marc Moonen , Toon van Waterschoot

In this work, we propose adaptive link selection strategies for distributed estimation in diffusion-type wireless networks. We develop an exhaustive search-based link selection algorithm and a sparsity-inspired link selection algorithm that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Songcen Xu , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , H. Vincent Poor

We propose to send a Gaussian source over an average-power limited additive white Gaussian noise channel by transmitting a linear combination of the source sequence and the result of its quantization using a high dimensional Gaussian vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Shraga Bross , Amos Lapidoth , Stephan Tinguely

This paper proposes an energy-efficient counting rule for distributed detection by ordering sensor transmissions in wireless sensor networks. In the counting rule-based detection in an $N-$sensor network, the local sensors transmit binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 N. Sriranga , K. G. Nagananda , R. S. Blum , A. Saucan , P. K. Varshney

We develop distributed algorithms to allocate resources in multi-hop wireless networks with the aim of minimizing total cost. In order to observe the fundamental duplexing constraint that co-located transmitters and receivers cannot operate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yufang Xi , Edmund M. Yeh

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