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Large data sets often require performing distributed statistical estimation, with a full data set split across multiple machines and limited communication between machines. To study such scenarios, we define and study some refinements of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 John C. Duchi , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright , Yuchen Zhang

Consider a discrete-time remote estimation system formed by an encoder, a transmission policy, a channel, and a remote estimator. The encoder assesses a random process that the remote estimator seeks to estimate based on information sent to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-04 David Ward , Nuno C. Martins

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

Joint estimation and scheduling for sensor networks is considered in a system formed by two sensors, a scheduler and a remote estimator. Each sensor observes a Gaussian source, which may be correlated. The scheduler observes the output of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Urbashi Mitra

In order to operate in and interact with the physical world, robots need to have estimates of the current and future state of the environment. We thus equip robots with sensors and build models and algorithms that, given some measurements,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Frederike Dümbgen

In this study, we consider a remote estimation system that estimates a time-varying target based on sensor data transmitted over wireless channel. Due to transmission errors, some data packets fail to reach the receiver. To mitigate this,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Sirin Chakraborty , Yin Sun

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

This work considers the sensor scheduling for multiple dynamic processes. We consider $n$ linear dynamic processes, the state of each process is measured by a sensor, which transmits their local state estimates over wireless channels to a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shuang Wu , Kemi Ding , Peng Cheng , Ling Shi

We consider a remote state estimation problem in the presence of an eavesdropper over packet dropping links. A smart sensor transmits its local estimates to a legitimate remote estimator, in the course of which an eavesdropper can randomly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Jingyi Lu , Alex S. Leong , Daniel E. Quevedo

We investigate a remote estimation problem in which a transmitter observes a Markov source and chooses the power level to transmit it over a time-varying packet-drop channel. The channel is modeled as a channel with Markovian state where…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jhelum Chakravorty , Aditya Mahajan

Joint optimization of scheduling and estimation policies is considered for a system with two sensors and two non-collocated estimators. Each sensor produces an independent and identically distributed sequence of random variables, and each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Mukul Gagrani , Ashutosh Nayyar , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we study the sensor selection problem for remote state estimation under the Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirement constraints. Multiple sensors are employed to observe a linear time-invariant system, and their measurements…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Huiwen Yang , Lingying Huang , Chao Yang , Yilin Mo , Ling Shi

We consider a decentralized optimal control problem for a linear plant controlled by two controllers, a local controller and a remote controller. The local controller directly observes the state of the plant and can inform the remote…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Yi Ouyang , Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Ashutosh Nayyar

Covariate shift occurs when the distribution of input features differs between the training and testing phases. In covariate shift, estimating an unknown function's moment is a classical problem that remains under-explored, despite its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Zhen Zhang , Xin Liu , Shaoli Wang , Jiaye Teng

Efficient remote monitoring of distributed sources is essential for many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This work studies the uncertainty at the receiver when tracking two-state Markov sources over a slotted random access channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Andrea Munari

In this paper, we aim to design an optimal sampler for a system in which fresh samples of a signal (source) are sent through an unreliable channel to a remote estimator, and acknowledgments are sent back over a feedback channel. Both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jiayu Pan , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

In this paper we study the problem of driving an agent to an unknown source whose location is estimated in real-time by a recursive optimization algorithm. The optimization criterion is subject to a least-square cost function constructed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

This paper considers the problem of sensory data scheduling of multiple processes. There are $n$ independent linear time-invariant processes and a remote estimator monitoring all the processes. Each process is measured by a sensor, which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Shuang Wu , Xiaoqiang Ren , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Zida Wu , Ankur Mehta

This paper considers a sequential estimation and sensor scheduling problem in the presence of multiple communication channels. As opposed to the classical remote estimation problem that involves one perfect (noiseless) channel and one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar