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In a wireless sensor network, multilevel quantization is necessary in order to find a compromise between the smallest possible power consumption of the sensors and the detection performance at the fusion center (FC). The general methodology…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Muath A. Wahdan , Mustafa A. Altınkaya

This paper proposes a parametric-based network architecture for joint channel estimation and data detection in communications systems with hardware impairments. This architecture is composed of a data-augmented layer, a custom soft…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Vincent Choqueuse , Alexandru Frunza , Adel Belouchrani , Stéphane Azou , Pascal Morel

In this paper, we consider the problem of detecting signals in multiple, sequentially observed data streams. For each stream, the exact distribution is unknown, but characterized by a parameter that takes values in either of two disjoint…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-30 Yiming Xing , Anamitra Chaudhuri , Yifan Chen

We consider the localization problem of multiple wideband sources in a multi-path environment by coherently taking into account the attenuation characteristics and the time delays in the reception of the signal. Our proposed method leaves…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Hamidreza Aghasi , Hamidreza Amindavar , Alireza Aghasi

We consider a wireless sensor network, consisting of N heterogeneous sensors and a fusion center (FC), that is tasked with solving a binary distributed detection problem. Each sensor is capable of harvesting randomly arrived energy and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Ghazaleh Ardeshiri , Hassan Yazdani , Azadeh Vosoughi

This paper proposes a variational Bayesian (VB) detector for affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) systems. The proposed method estimates the symbol probability distribution by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Can Zheng , Chung G. Kang

Sensor networks aim at monitoring their surroundings for event detection and object tracking. But, due to failure, or death of sensors, false signal can be transmitted. In this paper, we consider the problems of distributed fault detection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Mrinal Nandi , Anup Dewanji , Bimal Roy , Santanu Sarkar

We consider a decentralized detection problem in a power-constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs), in which a number of sensor nodes collaborate to detect the presence of a deterministic vector signal. The signal to be detected is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Zhi Chen , Shaoqian Li

In this paper, we investigate the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) with multiple antenna nodes over composite and generalized fading channels. We model the probability density function (PDF) of the signal-to-noise ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Al Hammadi , Omar Alhussein , Sami Muhaidat , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Saleh Al-Araji , George K. Karagiannidis

In wireless Internet of things (IoT), the sensors usually have limited bandwidth and power resources. Therefore, in a distributed setup, each sensor should compress and quantize the sensed observations before transmitting them to a fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Mostafa Hussien , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , Yik-Chung Wu

In this study, we investigate the resource management challenges in next-generation mobile crowdsensing networks with the goal of minimizing task completion latency while ensuring coverage performance, i.e., an essential metric to ensure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yaru Fu , Yue Zhang , Zheng Shi , Yongna Guo , Yalin Liu

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO. However, in practice, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs) increases, the Rayleigh…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Qingfeng Lin , Ziyue Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu

The fragility of quantum systems makes them ideally suited for sensing applications at the nanoscale. However, interpreting the output signal of a qubit-based sensor is generally complicated by background clutter due to out-of-band spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Virginia Frey , Leigh M. Norris , Lorenza Viola , Michael J. Biercuk

Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuzhu Duan , Ziwen Yang , Xiaoming Duan , Shanying Zhu

We consider the weak target detection problem with unknown parameter in colocated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. To cope with the sheer amount of data for large-size systems, a multi-bit quantizer is utilized in the sampling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Hang Xiao , Shixing Yang , Wei Yi

We address the problem of recovering a sparse signal observed by a resource constrained wireless sensor network under channel fading. Sparse random matrices are exploited to reduce the communication cost in forwarding information to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper investigates distributed detection of sparse stochastic signals with quantized measurements under Byzantine attacks. Under this type of attack, sensors in the networks might send falsified data to degrade system performance. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Chen Quan , Yunghsiang S. Han , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper studies recursive composite hypothesis testing in a network of sparsely connected agents. The network objective is to test a simple null hypothesis against a composite alternative concerning the state of the field, modeled as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Anit Kumar Sahu , Soummya Kar

GNSS localization is an important part of today's autonomous systems, although it suffers from non-Gaussian errors caused by non-line-of-sight effects. Recent methods are able to mitigate these effects by including the corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Tim Pfeifer , Peter Protzel