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We consider a wireless sensor network (WSN), consisting of several sensors and a fusion center (FC), which is tasked with solving an M-ary hypothesis testing problem. Sensors make M-ary decisions and transmit their digitally modulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Zahra Hajibabaei , Jalil Modares , Azadeh Vosoughi

In this paper, a cooperative diffusion-based molecular communication system is considered where distributed receivers collaboratively determine a transmitter's signal. In this system, the receivers first make local hard decisions about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

The trade-offs between error probabilities in quantum hypothesis testing are by now well-understood in the centralized setting, but much less is known for distributed settings. Here, we study a distributed binary hypothesis testing problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sreejith Sreekumar , Christoph Hirche , Hao-Chung Cheng , Mario Berta

We consider a power-constrained sensor network, consisting of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC), that is deployed for the purpose of estimating a common random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

The problem of decentralized detection in a sensor network subjected to a total average power constraint and all nodes sharing a common bandwidth is investigated. The bandwidth constraint is taken into account by assuming non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sudharman K. Jayaweera

A power constrained sensor network that consists of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC) is considered, where the goal is to estimate a random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework, the sensor nodes may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

A distributed inference scheme which uses bounded transmission functions over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. When the sensor measurements are decreasingly reliable as a function of the sensor index, the conditions on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

This paper considers a problem of distributed hypothesis testing and social learning. Individual nodes in a network receive noisy local (private) observations whose distribution is parameterized by a discrete parameter (hypotheses). The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Anusha Lalitha , Tara Javidi , Anand Sarwate

We study distributed estimation of a high-dimensional static parameter vector through a group of sensors whose communication network is modeled by a fixed directed graph. Different from existing time-triggered communication schemes, an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Xingkang He , Yu Xing , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we study a distributed learning problem constrained by constant communication bits. Specifically, we consider the distributed hypothesis testing (DHT) problem where two distributed nodes are constrained to transmit a constant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xiangxiang Xu , Shao-Lun Huang

The paper studies distributed binary hypothesis testing over a two-hop relay network where both the relay and the receiver decide on the hypothesis. Both communication links are subject to expected rate constraints, which differs from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Mustapha Hamad , Michèle Wigger , Mireille Sarkiss

We discuss a general approach to handling "multiple hypotheses" testing in the case when a particular hypothesis states that the vector of parameters identifying the distribution of observations belongs to a convex compact set associated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-24 A. Goldenshluger , A. Juditski , A. Nemirovski

We study the large deviations performance, i.e., the exponential decay rate of the error probability, of distributed detection algorithms over random networks. At each time step $k$ each sensor: 1) averages its decision variable with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Joao Xavier , Bruno Sinopoli , Jose M. F. Moura

Independent samples from an unknown probability distribution $\bf p$ on a domain of size $k$ are distributed across $n$ players, with each player holding one sample. Each player can communicate $\ell$ bits to a central referee in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Jayadev Acharya , Clément L. Canonne , Himanshu Tyagi

In this work, we consider a binary sequential hypothesis testing problem with distributed and asynchronous measurements. The aim is to analyze the effect of sampling times of jointly $\textit{wide-sense stationary}$ (WSS) Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Nandan Sriranga , Saikiran Bulusu , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney

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

Cooperative spectrum sensing is a robust strategy that enhances the detection probability of primary licensed users. However, a large number of detectors reporting to a fusion center for a final decision causes significant delay and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Laila Hesham , Ahmed Sultan , Mohammed Nafie

We consider the multiple hypothesis testing (MHT) problem over the joint domain formed by a graph and a measure space. On each sample point of this joint domain, we assign a hypothesis test and a corresponding $p$-value. The goal is to make…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Xingchao Jian , Martin Gölz , Feng Ji , Wee Peng Tay , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Sensor networks aim at monitoring their surroundings for event detection and object tracking. But, due to failure, or death of sensors, false signal can be transmitted. In this paper, we consider the problems of distributed fault detection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Mrinal Nandi , Anup Dewanji , Bimal Roy , Santanu Sarkar

A simple feedback control algorithm is presented for distributed beamforming in a wireless network. A network of wireless sensors that seek to cooperatively transmit a common message signal to a Base Station (BS) is considered. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 R. Mudumbai , J. Hespanha , U. Madhow , G. Barriac