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We consider a wireless sensor network, consisting of N heterogeneous sensors and a fusion center (FC), that is tasked with solving a binary distributed detection problem. Each sensor is capable of harvesting randomly arrived energy and…

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This paper gives a replica analysis for the minimum mean square error (MSE) of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system by using Bayesian inference. The Bayes-optimal estimator is adopted to estimate the data symbols and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Chao-Kai Wen , Yongpeng Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert Schober , Pangan Ting

Effective resource allocation in sensor networks, IoT systems, and distributed computing is essential for applications such as environmental monitoring, surveillance, and smart infrastructure. Sensors or agents must optimize their resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , Daniel S. Menasché , Don Towsley

We consider the scenario in which multiple sensors send spatially correlated data to a fusion center (FC) via independent Rayleigh-fading channels with additive noise. Assuming that the sensor data is sparse in some basis, we show that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Gang Yang , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Chin Keong Ho , See Ho Ting , Yong Liang Guan

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a foundational concept in statistical signal processing. The FIM depends on the probability distribution, assumed to belong to a smooth parametric family. Traditional approaches to estimating the FIM…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Visar Berisha , Alfred O. Hero

Bayesian estimation is a powerful theoretical paradigm for the operation of quantum sensors. However, the Bayesian method for statistical inference generally suffers from demanding calibration requirements that have so far restricted its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Samuel P. Nolan , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

We consider distributed estimation of a Gaussian source in a heterogenous bandwidth constrained sensor network, where the source is corrupted by independent multiplicative and additive observation noises, with incomplete statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Alireza Sani , Azadeh Vosoughi

This paper considers a bearings-only tracking problem using noisy measurements of unknown noise statistics from a passive sensor. It is assumed that the process and measurement noise follows the Gaussian distribution where the measurement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Shreya Das , Kundan Kumar , Shovan Bhaumik

An energy efficient use of large scale sensor networks necessitates activating a subset of possible sensors for estimation at a fusion center. The problem is inherently combinatorial; to this end, a set of iterative, randomized algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

We consider a model nondispersive nonlinear optical fiber channel with additive white Gaussian noise at large $\mathrm{SNR}$ (signal-to-noise ratio) in the intermediate power region. Using Feynman path-integral technique we for the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 I. S. Terekhov , A. V. Reznichenko , Ya. A. Kharkov , S. K. Turitsyn

The design of informatively rich input signals is essential for accurate system identification, yet classical Fisher-information-based methods are inherently local and often inadequate in the presence of significant model uncertainty and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Piotr Bania , Anna Wójcik

Due to the lack of wireless spectrum resources, people are focusing on the versatile wireless networks. Wireless localization and target sensing both rely on precise extraction of parameters such as signal amplitude, propagation delay and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Ruihang Zhang , Jiayan Yang , Mu Jia , Tingting Zhang

We consider a binary hypothesis testing problem in an inhomogeneous wireless sensor network, where a fusion center (FC) makes a global decision on the underlying hypothesis. We assume sensors observations are correlated Gaussian and sensors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-27 Hamid R. Ahmadi , Nahal Maleki , Azadeh Vosoughi

In this paper, we propose a multiobjective optimization framework for the sensor selection problem in uncertain Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The uncertainties of the WSNs result in a set of sensor observations with insufficient…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Nianxia Cao , Sora Choi , Engin Masazade , Pramod K. Varshney

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

We present a unifying framework that bridges Bayesian asymptotics and information theory to analyze the asymptotic Shannon capacity of general large-scale MIMO channels including ones with nonlinearities or imperfect hardware. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sheng Yang , Richard Combes

A distributed detection scheme where the sensors transmit with constant modulus signals over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. The deflection coefficient of the proposed scheme is shown to depend on the characteristic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Sivaraman Dasarathan

We employ a unified framework for computing the information capacity of biological signaling systems using Fisher Information. By deriving closed-form or easily computable information capacity formulas, we quantify how well different…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Michał Komorowski

We design iterative receiver schemes for a generic wireless communication system by treating channel estimation and information decoding as an inference problem in graphical models. We introduce a recently proposed inference framework that…

We analyze a binary hypothesis testing problem built on a wireless sensor network (WSN) for detecting a stationary random process distributed both in space and time with circularly-symmetric complex Gaussian distribution under the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2014-10-20 Juan Augusto Maya , Leonardo Rey Vega , Cecilia G. Galarza