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This paper is concerned with decentralized estimation of a Gaussian source using multiple sensors. We consider a diversity scheme where only the sensor with the best channel sends their measurements over a fading channel to a fusion center,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Alex S. Leong , Subhrakanti Dey

This paper presents a distributed optimization scheme over a network of agents in the presence of cost uncertainties and over switching communication topologies. Inspired by recent advances in distributed convex optimization, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Saghar Hosseini , Airlie Chapman , Mehran Mesbahi

The problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the presence of nonuniform sensor noise is considered and a novel algorithm is developed. The algorithm consists of three phases. First, the diagonal nonuniform sensor noise covariance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Majdoddin Esfandiari , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

In this paper, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using non-coherent processing for partly calibrated arrays composed of multiple subarrays is considered. The subarrays are assumed to compute locally the sample covariance matrices of…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-21 Wassim Suleiman , Pouyan Parvazi , Marius Pesavento , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

We consider the estimation distortion of a distributed sensing system with finite number of sensor nodes, in which the nodes observe a common phenomenon and transmit their observations to a fusion center over orthogonal channels. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yunquan Dong

In this paper, we study the problem of direction of arrival estimation and model order selection for systems employing subarray sampling. Thereby, we focus on scenarios, where the number of active sources is not smaller than the number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Andreas Barthelme , Wolfgang Utschick

Distributed sensor networks often include a multitude of sensors, each measuring parts of a process state space or observing the operations of a system. Communication of measurements between the sensor nodes and estimator(s) cannot…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Sanjay Chandrasekaran , Vishnu Varadan , Siva Vignesh Krishnan , Florian Dörfler , Mohammad H. Mamduhi

A distributed MIMO radar is considered, in which the transmit and receive antennas belong to nodes of a small scale wireless network. The transmit waveforms could be uncorrelated, or correlated in order to achieve a desirable beampattern.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-28 Athina P. Petropulu , Yao Yu , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates the problem of linear spatial collaboration for distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks. In this context, the sensors share their local noisy (and potentially spatially correlated) observations with each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohammad Fanaei , Matthew C. Valenti , Abbas Jamalipour , Natalia A. Schmid

Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling (DOS) techniques have been recently proposed to improve the throughput performance of wireless networks. With DOS, each station contends for the channel with a certain access probability. If a contention…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Albert Banchs , Pablo Serrano , Joerg Widmer

A distributed data collection algorithm to accurately store and forward information obtained by wireless sensor networks is proposed. The proposed algorithm does not depend on the sensor network topology, routing tables, or geographic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Salah A. Aly , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , H. Vincent Poor

In distributed detection systems with wireless sensor networks, the communication between sensors and a fusion center is not perfect due to interference and limited transmitter power at the sensors to combat noise at the fusion center's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Xin Zhang , H. Vincent Poor , Mung Chiang

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

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

In this paper, we address the fusion problem in wireless sensor networks, where the cross-correlation between the estimates is unknown. To solve the problem within the Bayesian framework, we assume that the covariance matrix has a prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Zhiyuan Weng , Petar Djuric

Cooperative spectrum sensing is a robust strategy that enhances the detection probability of primary licensed users. However, a large number of detectors reporting to a fusion center for a final decision causes significant delay and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Laila Hesham , Ahmed Sultan , Mohammed Nafie

Estimating statistical models within sensor networks requires distributed algorithms, in which both data and computation are distributed across the nodes of the network. We propose a general approach for distributed learning based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Qiang Liu , Alexander Ihler

Spatial frequency estimation from a mixture of noisy sinusoids finds applications in various fields. While subspace-based methods offer cost-effective super-resolution parameter estimation, they demand precise array calibration, posing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Tianyi Liu , Sai Pavan Deram , Khaled Ardah , Martin Haardt , Marc E. Pfetsch , Marius Pesavento

Sensing emerges as a critical challenge in 6G networks, which require simultaneous communication and target sensing capabilities. State-of-the-art super-resolution techniques for the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation encounter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Murat Babek Salman , Emil Björnson

This paper studies the event-triggered distributed fusion estimation problems for a class of nonlinear networked multisensor fusion systems without noise statistical characteristics. When considering the limited resource problems of two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Rusheng Wang , Bo Chen , Zhongyao Hu , Li Yu