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We consider the problem of jointly testing multiple hypotheses and estimating a random parameter of the underlying distribution. This problem is investigated in a sequential setup under mild assumptions on the underlying random process. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Dominik Reinhard , Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

The discrete nature of transmitted symbols poses challenges for achieving optimal detection in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems associated with a large number of antennas. Recently, the combination of two powerful machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

We consider a wireless sensor network, consisting of N heterogeneous sensors and a fusion center (FC), tasked with detecting a known signal in uncorrelated Gaussian noises. Each sensor can harvest randomly arriving energy and store it in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Ghazaleh Ardeshiri , Azadeh Vosoughi

In this paper we propose and analyze a distributed algorithm for achieving globally optimal decisions, either estimation or detection, through a self-synchronization mechanism among linearly coupled integrators initialized with local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa , Loreto Pescosolido

Within the realm of rapidly advancing wireless sensor networks (WSNs), distributed detection assumes a significant role in various practical applications. However, critical challenge lies in maintaining robust detection performance while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wei Guo , Meng He , Chuan Huang , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper we use the MAP criterion to locate a region containing a source. Sensors placed in a field of interest divide the latter into smaller regions and take measurements that are transmitted over noisy wireless channels. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-19 S. H. Dandach , F. Bullo

Reliability of sequential hypothesis testing can be greatly improved when the decision maker is given the freedom to adaptively take an action that determines the distribution of the current collected sample. Such advantage of sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Chia-Yu Hsu , I-Hsiang Wang

Motivated by the fact that input distributions are often unknown in advance, distribution-free property testing considers a setting where the algorithmic task is to accept functions $f : [n] \to \{0,1\}$ with a certain property P and reject…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hugo Aaronson , Tom Gur , Ninad Rajgopal , Ron D. Rothblum

Consider the problem of distributed binary hypothesis testing with two terminals, where the decision is made at one of them (the "receiver"). We study the exponent of the error probability of the second type. Previously, an achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuval Kochman , Ligong Wang

We consider distributed detection problems over adaptive networks, where dispersed agents learn continually from streaming data by means of local interactions. The simultaneous requirements of adaptation and cooperation are achieved by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Vincenzo Matta , Paolo Braca , Stefano Marano , Ali H. Sayed

A multi-user cognitive (secondary) radio system is considered, where the spatial multiplexing mode of operation is implemented amongst the nodes, under the presence of multiple primary transmissions. The secondary receiver carries out…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , George C. Alexandropoulos , Merouane Debbah

In continuation of an earlier study, we explore a Neymann-Pearson hypothesis testing scenario where, under the null hypothesis ($\cal{H}_0$), the received signal is a white noise process $N_t$, which is not Gaussian in general, and under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yossi Marciano , Neri Merhav

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

Let a cluster (network) of sensors be connected by the communication links, each link having a capacity upper bound. Each sensor observes a discrete random variable in private and one sensor serves as a cluster header or sink. Here, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Ni Ding , Parastoo Sadeghi , David Smith , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

We investigate the problem of jointly testing multiple hypotheses and estimating a random parameter of the underlying distribution in a sequential setup. The aim is to jointly infer the true hypothesis and the true parameter while using on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Dominik Reinhard , Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

We propose a new framework for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks, that is based on a novel class of non-uniform samplers, called the event-triggered samplers, and sequential detection. In the proposed scheme, each…

Applications · Statistics 2015-06-03 Yasin Yilmaz , George Moustakides , Xiaodong Wang

We address the optimal transmit power allocation problem (from the sensor nodes (SNs) to the fusion center (FC)) for the decentralized detection of an unknown deterministic spatially uncorrelated signal which is being observed by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Edmond Nurellari , Des McLernon , Mounir Ghogho , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi

In this paper, symbol-by-symbol maximum likelihood (ML) detection is proposed for a cooperative diffusion-based molecular communication (MC) system. In this system, the transmitter (TX) sends a common information symbol to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

The paper considers gossip distributed estimation of a (static) distributed random field (a.k.a., large scale unknown parameter vector) observed by sparsely interconnected sensors, each of which only observes a small fraction of the field.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Soummya Kar , Jose' M. F. Moura

We present an algorithm for the problem of linear distributed estimation of a parameter in a network where a set of agents are successively taking measurements. The approach considers a roaming token in a network that carries the estimate,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Lucas Balthazar , João Xavier , Bruno Sinopoli