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We consider a decentralized hypothesis testing problem in which several peripheral energy harvesting sensors are arranged in parallel. Each sensor makes a noisy observation of a time varying phenomenon, and sends a message about the present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Alla Tarighati , James Gross , Joakim Jalden

In the era of the Internet of Things and massive connectivity, many engineering applications, such as sensor fusion and federated edge learning, rely on efficient data aggregation from geographically distributed users over wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 David Nordlund , Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Erik G. Larsson , Zheng Chen

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

We study a class of binary detection problems involving a single fusion center and a large or countably infinite number of sensors. Each sensor acts under a decentralized information structure, accessing only a local noisy observation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Sinan Gezici , Serdar Yüksel

This paper considers an integrated sensing and communication system, where some radar targets also serve as communication scatterers. A location domain channel modeling method is proposed based on the position of targets and scatterers in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Wenkang Xu , Yongbo Xiao , An Liu , Ming Lei , Minjian Zhao

Communication of quantized information is frequently followed by a computation. We consider situations of \emph{distributed functional scalar quantization}: distributed scalar quantization of (possibly correlated) sources followed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Vinith Misra , Vivek K Goyal , Lav R. Varshney

Low-power chemical sensors deployed on mobile platforms make it possible to monitor pollutant concentrations across large urban areas. However, chemical sensors are prone to drift (e.g., aging, damage, poisoning) and have to be calibrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Rakesh Gosangi , Harsha Chenji , Radu Stoleru , Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

This paper considers the problem of binary distributed detection of a known signal in correlated Gaussian sensing noise in a wireless sensor network, where the sensors are restricted to use likelihood ratio test (LRT), and communicate with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Nahal Maleki , Azadeh Vosoughi , Nazanin Rahnavard

Probabilistic reasoning systems combine different probabilistic rules and probabilistic facts to arrive at the desired probability values of consequences. In this paper we describe the MESA-algorithm (Maximum Entropy by Simulated Annealing)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Gerhard Paaß

Interference mitigation techniques are essential for improving the performance of interference limited wireless networks. In this paper, we introduce novel interference mitigation schemes for wireless cellular networks with space division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-18 Martin Kasparick , Gerhard Wunder

In this paper we investigate fusion rules for distributed detection in large random clustered-wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with a three-tier hierarchy; the sensor nodes (SNs), the cluster heads (CHs) and the fusion center (FC). The CHs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-12 Sami A. Aldalahmeh , Saleh O. Al-Jazzar , Des McLernon , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi , Mounir Ghogho

Consider a sensor network made of remote nodes connected to a common fusion center. In a recent work Blum and Sadler [1] propose the idea of ordered transmissions -sensors with more informative samples deliver their messages first- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-29 Paolo Braca , Stefano Marano , Vincenzo Matta

In this paper we study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. Specifically, we present and analyze a distributed averaging algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in a cell-free (CF) user-centric wireless network, where a large number of potential users compete for a random access slot, while only a finite subset is active. The random access users transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Burak Çakmak , Eleni Gkiouzepi , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed sequential detection using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in the presence of imperfect communication channels between the sensors and the fusion center (FC). We assume that sensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Shan Zhang , Prashant Khanduri , Pramod K. Varshney

Modern data management systems often need to deal with massive, dynamic and inherently distributed data sources. We collect the data using a distributed network, and at the same time try to maintain a global view of the data at a central…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Jiecao Chen , Qin Zhang

This paper addresses distributed parameter estimation in stochastic dynamic systems with quantized measurements, constrained by quantized communication and Markovian switching directed topologies. To enable accurate recovery of the original…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Ying Wang , Jian Guo , Yanlong Zhao , Ji-feng Zhang

Energy conservation of sensor nodes for increasing the network life is the most crucial design goal while developing efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. Recent technological advances help in the development of wide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Surender Kumar , Manish Prateek , N. J. Ahuja , Bharat Bhushan

An asymptotic technique is presented to characterize the bits/symbol achievable on a representative wireless link in a spatially distributed network with active interferers at correlated positions, N receive diversity branches, and linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Siddhartan Govindasamy