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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 paper considers the problem of distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks (WSN), which is anticipated to support a wide range of applications such as the environmental monitoring, weather forecasting, and location estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Meng He , Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Shulong Zhang

Receiver algorithms which combine belief propagation (BP) with the mean field (MF) approximation are well-suited for inference of both continuous and discrete random variables. In wireless scenarios involving detection of multiple signals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Daniel J. Jakubisin , R. Michael Buehrer , Claudio R. C. M. da Silva

In this work, a Bayesian approximate message passing algorithm is proposed for solving the multiple measurement vector (MMV) problem in compressive sensing, in which a collection of sparse signal vectors that share a common support are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Justin Ziniel , Philip Schniter

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

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Ghazaleh Ardeshiri , Hassan Yazdani , Azadeh Vosoughi

Testing a covariance matrix following a Gaussian graphical model (GGM) is considered in this paper based on observations made at a set of distributed sensors grouped into clusters. Ordered transmissions are proposed to achieve the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Yicheng Chen , Rick S. Blum , Brian M. Sadler , Jiangfan Zhang

In the realm of deep learning, the Fisher information matrix (FIM) gives novel insights and useful tools to characterize the loss landscape, perform second-order optimization, and build geometric learning theories. The exact FIM is either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Alexander Soen , Ke Sun

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) represent a critical research domain within the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The distributed Kalman filter (DKF) has garnered significant attention as an information fusion method for WSNs. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Xuemei Mao , Gang Wang , Bei Peng , Jiacheng He , Kun Zhang , Song Gao , Jian Chen

We consider the task of estimating a low-rank matrix from non-linear and noisy observations. We prove a strong universality result showing that Bayes-optimal performances are characterized by an equivalent Gaussian model with an effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Pierre Mergny , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

In this paper, secure, remote estimation of a linear Gaussian process via observations at multiple sensors is considered. Such a framework is relevant to many cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things applications. Sensors make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

This paper introduces a Bayesian framework to detect multiple signals embedded in noisy observations from a sensor array. For various states of knowledge on the communication channel and the noise at the receiving sensors, a marginalization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Romain Couillet , Merouane Debbah

Famously, the quantum Fisher information -- the maximum Fisher information over all physical measurements -- is additive for independent copies of a system and the optimal measurement acts locally. We are left to wonder: does the same hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Javier Navarro , Simon Morelli , Mikel Sanz , Mohammad Mehboudi

This paper considers the problem of localizing a set of nodes in a wireless sensor network when both their positions and the parameters of the communication model are unknown. We assume that a single agent moves through the environment,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Yancheng Zhu , Sean B. Andersson

We consider the problem of learning high-dimensional, nonparametric and structured (e.g. Gaussian) distributions in distributed networks, where each node in the network observes an independent sample from the underlying distribution and can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Leighton Pate Barnes , Yanjun Han , Ayfer Ozgur

This paper focuses on the state estimation problem in distributed sensor networks, where intermittent packet dropouts, corrupted observations, and unknown noise covariances coexist. To tackle this challenge, we formulate the joint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-06 Peng Sun , Ruoyu Wang , Xue Luo

We consider the transmission of a memoryless bivariate Gaussian source over an average-power-constrained one-to-two Gaussian broadcast channel. The transmitter observes the source and describes it to the two receivers by means of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-20 Shraga Bross , Amos Lapidoth , Stephan Tinguely

This paper takes a different approach for the distributed linear parameter estimation over a multi-agent network. The parameter vector is considered to be stochastic with a Gaussian distribution. The sensor measurements at each agent are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Subhro Das

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. The sensors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Jiaqi Yan , Hideaki Ishii

In this work, we address the problem of estimating sparse communication channels in OFDM systems in the presence of carrier frequency offset (CFO) and unknown noise variance. To this end, we consider a convex optimization problem, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Rodrigo Carvajal , Boris I. Godoy , Juan C. Agüero

Beam displacement measurements are widely used in optical sensing and communications; however, their performance is affected by numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors including beam profile, propagation loss, and receiver architecture.…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenhua He , Christos N. Gagatsos , Dalziel J. Wilson , Saikat Guha