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Traditionally, the capacity region of a coherent fading multiple access channel (MAC) is analyzed in two popular contexts. In the first, a centralized system with full channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT) is assumed, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Sreejith Sreekumar , Bikash K. Dey , Sibi Raj B. Pillai

We present a unified analytical framework within which power control, rate allocation, routing, and congestion control for wireless networks can be optimized in a coherent and integrated manner. We consider a multi-commodity flow model with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-09-18 Yufang Xi , Edmund M. Yeh

We consider the problem of distributed estimation of a Gaussian vector with linear observation model. Each sensor makes a scalar noisy observation of the unknown vector, quantizes its observation, maps it to a digitally modulated symbol,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Mojtaba Shirazi , Azadeh Vosoughi

This paper considers state estimation of linear systems using analog amplify and forwarding with multiple sensors, for both multiple access and orthogonal access schemes. Optimal state estimation can be achieved at the fusion center using a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-11 Alex S. Leong , Subhrakanti Dey , Jamie S. Evans

We investigate the weighted-sum distortion minimization problem in transmitting two correlated Gaussian sources over Gaussian channels using two energy harvesting nodes. To this end, we develop offline and online power control policies to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Yunquan Dong , Zhi Chen , Jian Wang , Byonghyo Shim

Utility-based power allocation in wireless ad-hoc networks is inherently nonconvex because of the global coupling induced by the co-channel interference. To tackle this challenge, we first show that the globally optimal point lies on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lei Yang , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Junshan Zhang , Jason H. Li

We study distributed binary hypothesis testing with a single sensor and two remote decision centers that are also equipped with local sensors. The communication between the sensor and the two decision centers takes place over three links: a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Mustapha Hamad , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

This paper is concerned with decentralized estimation of a Gaussian source using multiple sensors. We consider a diversity scheme where only the sensor with the best channel sends their measurements over a fading channel to a fusion center,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Alex S. Leong , Subhrakanti Dey

Designing decentralized policies for wireless communication networks is a crucial problem, which has only been partially solved in the literature so far. In this paper, we propose the Decentralized Markov Decision Process (Dec-MDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Alessandro Biason , Subhrakanti Dey , Michele Zorzi

Coding and testing schemes for binary hypothesis testing over noisy networks are proposed and their corresponding type-II error exponents are derived. When communication is over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC), our scheme combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Michele Wigger

We study how the amount of correlation between observations collected by distinct sensors/learners affects data collection and collaboration strategies by analyzing Fisher information and the Cramer-Rao bound. In particular, we consider a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yu-Zhen Janice Chen , Daniel S. Menasche , Don Towsley

Jointly optimal transmission power control and remote estimation over an infinite horizon is studied. A sensor observes a dynamic process and sends its observations to a remote estimator over a wireless fading channel characterized by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Xiaoqiang Ren , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson , Guodong Shi , Ling Shi

In this work, we investigate direction finding in the presence of sensor gain uncertainties and directional perturbations for sensor array processing in a multi-frequency scenario. Specifically, we adopt a distributed optimization scheme in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Martin Brossard , Virginie Ollier , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

Censoring has been proposed to be utilized in wireless distributed detection networks with a fusion center to enhance network performance in terms of error probability in addition to the well-established energy saving gains. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Mohamed Seif , Mohammed Karmoose , Moustafa Youssef

This paper investigates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless powered communication system, where one user harvests energy from an energy access point (EAP) to power its information transmission to a data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xun Zhou , Chin Keong Ho , Rui Zhang

The problem of distributed dynamic state estimation in wireless sensor networks is studied. Two important properties of local estimates, namely, the consistency and confidence, are emphasized. On one hand, the consistency, which means that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shaocheng Wang , Wei Ren

The utilization of RF signals to probe material properties of objects is of huge interest both in academia as well as industry. To this end, a setup is investigated, in which a transmitter equipped with a two-dimensional multi-antenna array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ali Kariminezhad , Soheil Gherekhloo , Aydin Sezgin

This paper studies the joint device selection and power control scheme for wireless federated learning (FL), considering both the downlink and uplink communications between the parameter server (PS) and the terminal devices. In each round…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Wei Guo , Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Kaiming Shen , Wei Zhang

We consider the detection and estimation of a zero-mean Gaussian signal in a wireless sensor network with a coherent multiple access channel, when the fusion center (FC) is configured with a large number of antennas and the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Feng Jiang , Jie Chen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo

We consider the problem of decentralized hypothesis testing under communication constraints in a topology where several peripheral nodes are arranged in tandem. Each node receives an observation and transmits a message to its successor, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Alla Tarighati , Joakim Jalden