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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…

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A detection system with a single sensor and $\mathsf{K}$ detectors is considered, where each of the terminals observes a memoryless source sequence and the sensor sends a common message to all the detectors. The communication of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Pierre Escamilla , Michèle Wigger , Abdellatif Zaidi

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train models through local training and fully decentralized device-to-device (D2D) model exchanges. However, these energy-intensive operations often rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kai Zhang , Xuanyu Cao , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we investigate the problem of jointly selecting a predefined number of energy-harvesting (EH) sensors and computing the optimal power allocation. The ultimate goal is to minimize the reconstruction distortion at the fusion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Javier Matamoros , Carles Antón-Haro

In cyber-physical systems where sensors measure the temporal evolution of a given phenomenon of interest and radio communication takes place over short distances, the energy spent for source acquisition and compression may be comparable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Paolo Castiglione , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip , Thomas Zemen

Energy efficiency is a key requirement in the design of wireless sensor networks. While most theoretical studies only account for the energy requirements of communication, the sensing process, which includes measurements and compression,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Xi Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

Smart grids are becoming ubiquitous in recent time. With the progress of automation in this arena, it needs to be diagnosed for better performance and less failures. There are several options for doing that but we have seen from the past…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Uthman Baroudi , Ahmad Shawahna , Md. Enamul Haque

The main objective of this paper is to reduce the number of sensor nodes by estimating a trade off between data accuracy and energy consumption for selecting nodes in probabilistic approach in distributed networks. Design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-21 Jyotirmoy Karjee , H. S Jamadagni

We study a class of binary detection problems involving a single fusion center and a large or countably infinite number of sensors. Each sensor acts under a decentralized information structure, accessing only a local noisy observation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Sinan Gezici , Serdar Yüksel

We consider energy-efficient time synchronization in a wireless sensor network where a head node (i.e., a gateway between wired and wireless networks and a center of data fusion) is equipped with a powerful processor and supplied power from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Kyeong Soo Kim , Sanghyuk Lee , Eng Gee Lim

A single-sensor two-detectors system is considered where the sensor communicates with both detectors and Detector 1 communicates with Detector 2, all over noise-free rate-limited links. The sensor and both detectors observe discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Pierre Escamilla , Michèle Wigger , Abdellatif Zaidi

Sequential detection problems in sensor networks are considered. The true state of nature/true hypothesis is modeled as a binary random variable $H$ with known prior distribution. There are $N$ sensors making noisy observations about the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Ashutosh Nayyar , Demosthenis Teneketzis

We address the optimal transmit power allocation problem (from the sensor nodes (SNs) to the fusion center (FC)) for the decentralized detection of an unknown deterministic spatially uncorrelated signal which is being observed by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Edmond Nurellari , Des McLernon , Mounir Ghogho , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi

In distributed detection systems with wireless sensor networks, the communication between sensors and a fusion center is not perfect due to interference and limited transmitter power at the sensors to combat noise at the fusion center's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Xin Zhang , H. Vincent Poor , Mung Chiang

The clustering algorithm are considered as a kind of key technique used to reduce energy consumption. It can help in increasing the stability period and network life time. Routing protocol for efficient energy utilization should be designed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-20 M. Y. Khan , N. Javaid , M. A. Khan , A. Javaid , Z. A. Khan , U. Qasim

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are extensively used in monitoring applications such as humidity and temperature sensing in smart buildings, industrial automation, and predicting crop health. Sensor nodes are deployed in remote places to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Sara Kassan , Jaafar Gaber , Pascal Lorenz

We study a sensor node with an energy harvesting source. The generated energy can be stored in a buffer. The sensor node periodically senses a random field and generates a packet. These packets are stored in a queue and transmitted using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vinod Sharma , Utpal Mukherji , Vinay Joseph , Shrey Gupta

We consider the problem of finding optimal energy sharing policies that maximize the network performance of a system comprising of multiple sensor nodes and a single energy harvesting (EH) source. Sensor nodes periodically sense the random…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Sindhu Padakandla , Prabuchandran K. J , Shalabh Bhatnagar

One of the main concerns in traditional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is energy efficiency. In this work, we analyze two techniques that can extend network lifetime. The first is Ambient \emph{Energy Harvesting} (EH), i.e., the capability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Alessandro Biason , Michele Zorzi

We consider the detection of a correlated random process immersed in noise in a wireless sensor network. Each node has an individual energy constraint and the communication with the processing central units are affected by the path loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Juan Augusto Maya , Cecilia G. Galarza , Leonardo Rey Vega