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In this paper, given a random uniform distribution of sensor nodes on a 2-D plane, a fast self-organized distributed algorithm is proposed to find the maximum number of partitions of the nodes such that each partition is connected and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-12 Dibakar Saha , Nabanita Das

Lossless compression methods shorten the expected representation size of data without loss of information, using a statistical model. Flow-based models are attractive in this setting because they admit exact likelihood optimization, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Emiel Hoogeboom , Jorn W. T. Peters , Rianne van den Berg , Max Welling

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

Several data compressors have been proposed in distributed optimization frameworks of network systems to reduce communication overhead in large-scale applications. In this paper, we demonstrate that effective information compression may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Xinlei Yi , Xi Wang , Deming Yuan , Tao Yang , Zhengguang Wu , Guodong Shi

We consider the External Clock Synchronization problem in dynamic sensor networks. Initially, sensors obtain inaccurate estimations of an external time reference and subsequently collaborate in order to synchronize their internal clocks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Ofer Feinerman , Amos Korman

We consider a linear dynamical system in which the state vector consists of both public and private states. One or more sensors make measurements of the state vector and sends information to a fusion center, which performs the final state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yang Song , Chong Xiao Wang , Wee Peng Tay

We consider the distributed source coding problem in which correlated data picked up by scattered sensors has to be encoded separately and transmitted to a common receiver, subject to a rate-distortion constraint. Although near-tooptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 G. Maierbacher , J. Barros

Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanxiao Liu , Shenghao Yang , Cheuk Ting Li

Maximal Independent Set selection is a fundamental problem in distributed computing. A novel probabilistic algorithm for this problem has recently been proposed by Afek et al, inspired by the study of the way that developing cells in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-02 Alex Scott , Peter Jeavons , Lei Xu

We consider a detection problem where sensors experience noisy measurements and intermittent communication opportunities to a centralized fusion center (or cloud). The objective of the problem is to arrive at the correct estimate of event…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Michal Yemini , Stephanie Gil , Andrea Goldsmith

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

Probabilistic load flow (PLF) allows to evaluate uncertainties introduced by renewable energy sources on system operation. Ideally, the PLF calculation is implemented for an entire grid requiring all the parameters of the transmission lines…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Mengshuo Jia , Yi Wang , Chen Shen , Gabriela Hug

In recent years, decentralized sensor networks have garnered significant attention in the field of state estimation owing to enhanced robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance. Optimal fusion performance can be achieved under fully…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Ruifeng Dong , Ming Wang , Ning Liu , Tong Guo , Jiayi Kang , Xiaojing Shen , Yao Mao

A wide variety of problems in machine learning, including exemplar clustering, document summarization, and sensor placement, can be cast as constrained submodular maximization problems. Unfortunately, the resulting submodular optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Rafael da Ponte Barbosa , Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen , Justin Ward

Consider the two related problems of sensor selection and sensor fusion. In the first, given a set of sensors, one wishes to identify a subset of the sensors, which while small in size, captures the essence of the data gathered by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-20 Asaf Cohen , Shlomi Dolav , Guy Leshem

In wireless Internet of things (IoT), the sensors usually have limited bandwidth and power resources. Therefore, in a distributed setup, each sensor should compress and quantize the sensed observations before transmitting them to a fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Mostafa Hussien , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

In the past few years, the problem of distributed consensus has received a lot of attention, particularly in the framework of ad hoc sensor networks. Most methods proposed in the literature address the consensus averaging problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Effrosyni Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

In this paper, we describe a general algorithmic framework for solving linear signal or feature fusion optimization problems in a distributed setting, for example in a wireless sensor network (WSN). These problems require linearly combining…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Cem Ates Musluoglu , Alexander Bertrand

Several high-throughput distributed data-processing applications require multi-hop processing of streams of data. These applications include continual processing on data streams originating from a network of sensors, composing a multimedia…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-03-26 Shah Asaduzzaman , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

As the number of sensors becomes massive in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, the amount of data is humongous. To process data in real-time while protecting user privacy, federated learning (FL) has been regarded as an enabling technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jianyang Ren , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Gaofeng Nie