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Cascaded binary hypothesis testing is studied in this paper with two decision centers at the relay and the receiver. All terminals have their own observations, where we assume that the observations at the transmitter, the relay, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Mustapha Hamad , Michèle Wigger , Mireille Sarkiss

We consider a binary hypothesis testing problem in an inhomogeneous wireless sensor network, where a fusion center (FC) makes a global decision on the underlying hypothesis. We assume sensors observations are correlated Gaussian and sensors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-27 Hamid R. Ahmadi , Nahal Maleki , Azadeh Vosoughi

The generalized Poor-Verdu error lower bound established in [1] for multihypothesis testing is studied in the classical channel coding context. It is proved that for any sequence of block codes sent over the memoryless binary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ling-Hua Chang , Po-Ning Chen , Fady Alajaji , Yunghsiang S. Han

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

Consider a distributed detection problem in which the underlying distributions of the observations are unknown; instead of these distributions, noisy versions of empirically observed statistics are available to the fusion center. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Haiyun He , Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In the problem of composite hypothesis testing, identifying the potential uniformly most powerful (UMP) unbiased test is of great interest. Beyond typical hypothesis settings with exponential family, it is usually challenging to prove the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-03 Tianyu Zhan , Jian Kang

Cell-free massive MIMO is one of the core technologies for future wireless networks. It is expected to bring enormous benefits, including ultra-high reliability, data throughput, energy efficiency, and uniform coverage. As a radically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Hengtao He , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

When multiple sources of data need to transmit their rateless coded symbols through a single relay to a common destination, a distributed rateless code instead of several separate conventional rateless codes can be employed to encode the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-08 Ali Talari , Nazanin Rahnavard

We analyze the trade-off between the undetected error probability (i.e., the probability that the channel decoder outputs an erroneous message without detecting the error) and the total error probability in the short blocklength regime. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Alexander Sauter , A. Oguz Kislal , Giuseppe Durisi , Gianluigi Liva , Balazs Matuz , Erik G. Ström

We present a novel autoencoder-based approach for designing codes that provide unequal error protection (UEP) capabilities. The proposed design is based on a generalization of an autoencoder loss function that accommodates both message-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Christian Häger , Henk Wymeersch , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We study a distributed binary hypothesis testing (HT) problem with communication and security constraints, involving three parties: a remote sensor called Alice, a legitimate decision centre called Bob, and an eavesdropper called Eve, all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Sara Faour , Mustapha Hamad , Mireille Sarkiss , Michele Wigger

This article is concerned with decentralized sequential testing of multiple hypotheses. In a sensor network system with limited local memory, raw observations are observed at the local sensors, and quantized into binary sensor messages that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-12 Yan Wang , Yajun Mei

We examine a new class of channel coding strategies, and hypothesis tests referred to as almost-fixed-length strategies that have little flexibility in the stopping time over fixed-length strategies. The stopping time of these strategies is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Anusha Lalitha , Tara Javidi

In the binary hypothesis testing problem, it is well known that sequentiality in taking samples eradicates the trade-off between two error exponents, yet implementing the optimal test requires the knowledge of the underlying distributions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ching-Fang Li , I-Hsiang Wang

A collaborative distributed binary decision problem is considered. Two statisticians are required to declare the correct probability measure of two jointly distributed memoryless process, denoted by $X^n=(X_1,\dots,X_n)$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Gil Katz , Pablo Piantanida , Merouane Debbah

The "Divide and Concur'' (DC) algorithm, recently introduced by Gravel and Elser, can be considered a competitor to the belief propagation (BP) algorithm, in that both algorithms can be applied to a wide variety of constraint satisfaction,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Jonathan S. Yedidia , Yige Wang , Stark C. Draper

In distributed hypothesis testing, a central server performs hypothesis testing based on information received from distributed sensors/clients. We study a secure variant of this problem in which the central server determines the hypothesis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gowtham R. Kurri , Varun Narayanan , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , K. R. Sahasranand

In this paper, we consider designing low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded modulation systems to achieve unequal error protection (UEP). We propose a new UEP approach by partial superposition transmission called UEP-by-PST. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Kechao Huang , Chulong Liang , Xiao Ma , Baoming Bai

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 explore the fundamental limits of heterogeneous distributed detection in an anonymous sensor network with n sensors and a single fusion center. The fusion center collects the single observation from each of the n sensors to detect a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wei-Ning Chen , I-Hsiang Wang