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We consider a state-dependent multiaccess channel (MAC) with state non-causally known to some encoders. We derive an inner bound for the capacity region in the general discrete memoryless case and specialize to a binary noiseless case. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-30 Shiva Prasad Kotagiri , J. Nicholas Laneman

We consider a two-user state-dependent multiaccess channel in which only one of the encoders is informed, non-causally, of the channel states. Two independent messages are transmitted: a common message transmitted by both the informed and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Abdellatif Zaidi , Shiva Prasad Kotagiri , J. Nicholas Laneman , Luc Vandendorpe

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed parameter estimation in sensor networks. Each sensor makes successive observations of an unknown $d$-dimensional parameter, which might be subject to Gaussian random noises. They aim to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Jiaqi Yan , Hideaki Ishii

The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a data dimensionality reduction technique well-suited for processing data from sensor networks. It can be applied to tasks like compression, event detection, and event recognition. This technique is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-13 Yann-Aël Le Borgne , Sylvain Raybaud , Gianluca Bontempi

We consider distributed estimation of a random source in a hierarchical power constrained wireless sensor network. Sensors within each cluster send their measurements to a cluster head (CH). CHs optimally fuse the received signals and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Mojtaba Shirazi , Azadeh Vosoughi

A distributed adaptive algorithm to estimate a time-varying signal, measured by a wireless sensor network, is designed and analyzed. One of the major features of the algorithm is that no central coordination among the nodes needs to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-10-22 Carlo Fischione , Alberto Speranzon , Karl H. Johansson , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

A state-dependent degraded broadcast diamond channel is studied where the source-to-relays cut is modeled with two noiseless, finite-capacity digital links with a degraded broadcasting structure, while the relays-to-destination cut is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Min Li , Osvaldo Simeone , Aylin Yener

By assigning the massive computing tasks of the traditional multichannel active noise control (MCANC) system to several distributed control nodes, distributed multichannel active noise control (DMCANC) techniques have become effective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Junwei Ji , Dongyuan Shi , Zhengding Luo , Xiaoyi Shen , Woon-Seng Gan

Distributed sensor networks have gained interest thanks to the developments in processing power and communications. Event-triggering mechanisms can be useful in reducing communication between the nodes of the network, while still ensuring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

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

This paper considers a random access system where each sender can be in two modes of operation, active or not active, and where the set of active users is available to a common receiver only. Active transmitters encode data into independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Paolo Minero , Massimo Franceschetti , David N. C. Tse

Diffusion-based molecular communication (DMC) is one of the most promising approaches for realizing nano-scale communications for healthcare applications. The DMC systems in in-vivo environments may encounter biological entities that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Ali Etemadi , Paeiz Azmi , Hamidreza Arjmandi , Nader Mokari

We study the multi-message broadcast problem using abstract MAC layer models of wireless networks. These models capture the key guarantees of existing MAC layers while abstracting away low-level details such as signal propagation and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Mohsen Ghaffari , Erez Kantor , Nancy Lynch , Calvin Newport

Robust diffusion adaptive estimation algorithms based on the maximum correntropy criterion (MCC), including adaptation to combination MCC and combination to adaptation MCC, are developed to deal with the distributed estimation over network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-04 Wentao Ma , Badong Chen , Jiandong Duan , Haiquan Zhao

We consider a basic joint communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends a codeword to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh

Nowadays, with the development of multi-sensor networks, the distributed cubature Kalman filter is one of the well-known existing schemes for state estimation, for which the influence of the non-Gaussian noise, abnormal data, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Duc Viet Nguyen , Haiquan Zhao , Jinhui Hu

This article examines the problem of state estimation over multi-terminal channels in an unreliable regime. More specifically, we consider two canonical settings. In the first setting, measurements of a common stochastic source need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Touraj Soleymani , Deniz Gündüz

We consider the problem of learning from distributed data in the agnostic setting, i.e., in the presence of arbitrary forms of noise. Our main contribution is a general distributed boosting-based procedure for learning an arbitrary concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Shang-Tse Chen , Maria-Florina Balcan , Duen Horng Chau

We present two efficient quantum key distribution schemes over two different collective-noise channels. The accepted hypothesis of collective noise is that photons travel inside a time window small compared to the variation of noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xi-Han Li , Fu-Guo Deng , Hong-Yu Zhou

The problem of distributed dynamic state estimation in wireless sensor networks is studied. Two important properties of local estimates, namely, the consistency and confidence, are emphasized. On one hand, the consistency, which means that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shaocheng Wang , Wei Ren