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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Mohammad Ali Amirabadi , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei , S. Alireza Nezamalhosseini

This work demonstrates the potential of deep reinforcement learning techniques for transmit power control in wireless networks. Existing techniques typically find near-optimal power allocations by solving a challenging optimization problem.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Yasar Sinan Nasir , Dongning Guo

We consider a distributed detection problem within a wireless sensor network (WSN), where a substantial number of sensors cooperate to detect the existence of sparse stochastic signals. To achieve a trade-off between detection performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Linlin Mao , Shefeng Yan , Zeping Sui , Hongbin Li

We consider the transmission of a Gaussian vector source over a multi-dimensional Gaussian channel where a random or a fixed subset of the channel outputs are erased. Within the setup where the only encoding operation allowed is a linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ayça Özçelikkale , Serdar Yüksel , Haldun M. Ozaktas

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed parameter estimation in sensor networks. Each sensor makes successive observations of an unknown $d$-dimensional parameter, which might be subject to Gaussian random noises. They aim to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Jiaqi Yan , Hideaki Ishii

We study the problem of optimal power allocation in a single-hop ad hoc wireless network. In solving this problem, we propose a hybrid neural architecture inspired by the algorithmic unfolding of the iterative weighted minimum mean squared…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Arindam Chowdhury , Gunjan Verma , Chirag Rao , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

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

This work studies inference-based resource allocation in ultra low-power, large-scale backscatter sensor networks (BSNs). Several ultra-low cost and power sensor devices (tags) are illuminated by a carrier and reflect the measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Panos N. Alevizos , Aggelos Bletsas

This paper considers the problem of binary distributed detection of a known signal in correlated Gaussian sensing noise in a wireless sensor network, where the sensors are restricted to use likelihood ratio test (LRT), and communicate with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Nahal Maleki , Azadeh Vosoughi , Nazanin Rahnavard

This two-part paper presents a feedback-based cross-layer framework for distributed sensing and estimation of a dynamic process by a wireless sensor network (WSN). Sensor nodes wirelessly communicate measurements to the fusion center (FC).…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Nicolo Michelusi , Urbashi Mitra

Sensor networks aim at monitoring their surroundings for event detection and object tracking. But, due to failure, or death of sensors, false signal can be transmitted. In this paper, we consider the problems of distributed fault detection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Mrinal Nandi , Anup Dewanji , Bimal Roy , Santanu Sarkar

The present work considers the localization problem in wireless sensor networks formed by fixed nodes. Each node seeks to estimate its own position based on noisy measurements of the relative distance to other nodes. In a centralized batch…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gemma Morral , Pascal Bianchi

We consider the case when a set of spatially distributed sensors make local observations which are noisy versions of a signal of interest. Each sensor transmits compressed information about its measurements to the fusion center which should…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Alex Grant , Anatoli Torokhti , Pablo Soto-Quiros

This work develops power control algorithms for energy efficiency (EE) maximization (measured in bit/Joule) in wireless networks. Unlike previous related works, minimum-rate constraints are imposed and the signal-to-interference-plus-noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Alessio Zappone , Luca Sanguinetti , Giacomo Bacci , Eduard Jorswieck , Mérouane Debbah

We study the problem of the reconstruction of a Gaussian field defined in [0,1] using N sensors deployed at regular intervals. The goal is to quantify the total data rate required for the reconstruction of the field with a given mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-23 Akshay Kashyap , Luis Alfonso Lastras-Montaño , Cathy Xia , Zhen Liu

In this paper, we consider the problem of sparse signal detection based on partial support set estimation with compressive measurements in a distributed network. Multiple nodes in the network are assumed to observe sparse signals which…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-10 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we consider a general distributed estimation problem in relay-assisted sensor networks by taking into account time-varying asymmetric communications, fading channels and intermittent measurements. Motivated by centralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Shanying Zhu , Yeng Chai Soh , Lihua Xie

This paper considers the minimization of transmit power in Gaussian parallel interference channels, subject to a rate constraint for each user. To derive decentralized solutions that do not require any cooperation among the users, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Jong-Shi Pang , Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Chaoxiong Wang

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

We study the problem of controlling how a limited communication bandwidth budget is allocated across heterogeneously quantized sensor measurements. The performance criterion is the trace of the error covariance matrix of the linear minimum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Cameron Khanpour , Daniel Turizo , Samuel Talkington