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We derive minimax testing errors in a distributed framework where the data is split over multiple machines and their communication to a central machine is limited to $b$ bits. We investigate both the $d$- and infinite-dimensional signal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Botond Szabó , Lasse Vuursteen , Harry van Zanten

We consider distributed estimation of a random source in a hierarchical power constrained wireless sensor network. Sensors within each cluster send their measurements to a cluster head (CH). CHs optimally fuse the received signals and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Mojtaba Shirazi , Azadeh Vosoughi

We consider a scenario in which $K$ transmitters attempt to communicate covert messages reliably to a legitimate receiver over a discrete memoryless MAC while simultaneously escaping detection from an adversary who observes their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam , Matthieu R. Bloch

Persistent scatterer interferometry and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tomography are powerful tools for the detection and time monitoring of persistent scatterers. They have been proven to be effective in urban scenarios, especially for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Pia Addabbo , Diego Reale , Antonio Pauciullo , Gianfranco Fornaro , Danilo Orlando

Modern statisticians are often presented with hundreds or thousands of hypothesis testing problems to evaluate at the same time, generated from new scientific technologies such as microarrays, medical and satellite imaging devices, or flow…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 Bradley Efron

Decentralized state estimation in a communication-constrained sensor network is considered. The exchanged estimates are dimension-reduced to reduce the communication load using a linear mapping to a lower-dimensional space. The mean squared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Robin Forsling , Fredrik Gustafsson , Zoran Sjanic , Gustaf Hendeby

In this paper, we exploit the theory of compressive sensing to perform detection of a random source in a dense sensor network. When the sensors are densely deployed, observations at adjacent sensors are highly correlated while those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

We study hypothesis testing under communication constraints, where each sample is quantized before being revealed to a statistician. Without communication constraints, it is well known that the sample complexity of simple binary hypothesis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

We consider the distributed detection of a zero-mean Gaussian signal in an analog wireless sensor network with a fusion center (FC) configured with a large number of antennas. The transmission gains of the sensor nodes are optimized by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Feng Jiang , Jie Chen , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we address the problem of simultaneous classification and estimation of hidden parameters in a sensor network with communications constraints. In particular, we consider a network of noisy sensors which measure a common…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Fabio Fagnani , Sophie M. Fosson , Chiara Ravazzi

Enhanced processing power in the cloud allows constrained devices to offload costly computations: for instance, complex data analytics tasks can be computed by remote servers. Remote execution calls for a new compression paradigm that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Fabrizio Carpi , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

We consider a remote estimation problem with an energy harvesting sensor and a remote estimator. The sensor observes the state of a discrete-time source which may be a finite state Markov chain or a multi-dimensional linear Gaussian system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ashutosh Nayyar , Tamer Basar , Demosthenis Teneketzis , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

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

We study a class of distributed hypothesis testing against conditional independence problems. Under the criterion that stipulates minimization of the Type II error rate subject to a (constant) upper bound $\epsilon$ on the Type I error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Abdellatif Zaidi , Inaki Estella Aguerri

Motivated by the simultaneous association analysis with the presence of latent confounders, this paper studies the large-scale hypothesis testing problem for the high-dimensional confounded linear models with both non-asymptotic and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-24 Yinrui Sun , Li Ma , Yin Xia

We present a new approach to secure wireless communications using coherent distributed transmission of signals that are spatially decomposed between a two-element distributed antenna array. High-accuracy distributed coordination of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Anton Schlegel , Jason M/ Merlo , Samuel Wagner , John B. Lancaster , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

In this paper, we aim to design and analyze distributed Bayesian estimation algorithms for sensor networks. The challenges we address are to (i) derive a distributed provably-correct algorithm in the functional space of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Parth Paritosh , Nikolay Atanasov , Sonia Martinez

A sensor network is considered where at each sensor a sequence of random variables is observed. At each time step, a processed version of the observations is transmitted from the sensors to a common node called the fusion center. At some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Taposh Banerjee , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

In this work, we formulate the fixed-length distribution matching as a Bayesian inference problem. Our proposed solution is inspired from the compressed sensing paradigm and the sparse superposition (SS) codes. First, we introduce sparsity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Mohamad Dia , Vahid Aref , Laurent Schmalen

We consider a wireless sensor network consists of cooperative nodes, each of them keep adapting to streaming data to perform a least-mean-squares estimation, and also maintain information exchange among neighboring nodes in order to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-13 Yuan Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Wuhua Hu