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We analyze a binary hypothesis testing problem built on a wireless sensor network (WSN) for detecting a stationary random process distributed both in space and time with circularly-symmetric complex Gaussian distribution under the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2014-10-20 Juan Augusto Maya , Leonardo Rey Vega , Cecilia G. Galarza

A novel Gamma-distributed geometric constellation design framework for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is proposed in this paper. In this framework, constellation points are modeled as samples drawn from a parameterized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Amirhossein Keshavarzchafjiri , Janith K. Dassanayake , Gayan A. Aruma Baduge , Mojtaba Vaezi

We investigate whether uncoded schemes are optimal for Gaussian sources on multiuser Gaussian channels. Particularly, we consider two problems: the first is to send correlated Gaussian sources on a Gaussian broadcast channel where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Chao Tian , Jun Chen , Suhas Diggavi , Shlomo Shamai

An energy efficient use of large scale sensor networks necessitates activating a subset of possible sensors for estimation at a fusion center. The problem is inherently combinatorial; to this end, a set of iterative, randomized algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

We consider a multiterminal source coding problem in which a source is estimated at a central processing unit from lossy-compressed remote observations. Each lossy-encoded observation is produced by a remote sensor which obtains a noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Ruiyang Song , Stefano Rini , Alon Kipnis , Andrea J. Goldsmith

The focus of this research is sensor applications including radar and sonar. Optimal sensing means achieving the best signal quality with the least time and energy cost, which allows processing more data. This paper presents novel work by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Abdulaziz M. Alqarni , Thomas G. Robertazzi

The problem of optimal node density for ad hoc sensor networks deployed for making inferences about two dimensional correlated random fields is considered. Using a symmetric first order conditional autoregressive Gauss-Markov random field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Youngchul Sung , H. Vincent Poor , Heejung Yu

The symbol error rate of the minimum distance detector for an arbitrary multi-dimensional constellation impaired by additive white Gaussian noise is characterized as the product of a completely monotone function with a non-negative power of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Adithya Rajan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

We consider the problem of distributed estimation under the Bayesian criterion and explore the design of optimal quantizers in such a system. We show that, for a conditionally unbiased and efficient estimator at the fusion center and when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Aditya Vempaty , Hao He , Biao Chen , Pramod K. Varshney

Optimal modulation (OM) schemes for Gaussian channels with peak and average power constraints are known to require nonuniform probability distributions over signal points, which presents practical challenges. An established way to map…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Basak Ozaydin , Muriel Médard , Ken Duffy

We study the power-versus-distortion trade-off for the transmission of a memoryless bivariate Gaussian source over a two-to-one Gaussian multiple-access channel with perfect causal feedback. In this problem, each of two separate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-23 Amos Lapidoth , Stephan Tinguely

In cognitive radio networks, spectrum sensing is a crucial technique to discover spectrum opportunities for the Secondary Users (SUs). The quality of spectrum sensing is evaluated by both sensing accuracy and sensing efficiency. Here,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Yi Liu , Shengli Xie , Rong Yu , Yan Zhang , Chau Yuen

This paper considers an unlicensed multiple-access channel (MAC) that coexists with a licensed point-to-point user, following the underlay cognitive radio paradigm. We assume that every transceiver except the secondary base station has one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Christian Lameiro , Ignacio Santamaria , Peter J. Schreier

This paper considers a special case of the problem of identifying a static scalar signal, depending on the location, using a planar network of sensors in a distributed fashion. Motivated by the application to monitoring wild-fires spreading…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-25 Paolo Frasca , Paolo Mason , Benedetto Piccoli

We consider the problem of transmitting a bivariate Gaussian source over a two-user additive Gaussian multiple-access channel with feedback. Each of the transmitters observes one of the source components and tries to describe it to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Amos Lapidoth , Stephan Tinguely

We consider the problem of decentralized hypothesis testing under communication constraints in a topology where several peripheral nodes are arranged in tandem. Each node receives an observation and transmits a message to its successor, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Alla Tarighati , Joakim Jalden

This paper considers the problem of transmitting the difference of two jointly Gaussian sources over a two-user additive Gaussian noise multiple access channel (MAC). The goal is to recover this difference within an average mean squared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-08 Rajiv Soundararajan , Sriram Vishwanath

In this paper, we investigate the signal shaping in a two-user discrete time memoryless Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with computation. It is shown that by optimizing input probability distribution, the transmission rate per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Zhiyong Chen , Hui Liu

An uplink system with a single antenna transmitter and a single receiver with a large number of antennas is considered. We propose an energy-detection-based single-shot noncoherent communication scheme which does not use the instantaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Alexandros Manolakos , Mainak Chowdhury , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Over-the-air computation (OAC) leverages the physical superposition property of wireless multiple access channels (MACs) to compute functions while communication occurs, enabling scalable and low-latency processing in distributed networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione