On rate-constrained distributed estimation in unreliable sensor networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 765-774

  Ishwar, Prakash ^a,b   Puri, Rohit ^a   Ramchandran, Kannan ^a   Pradhan, S Sandeep ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized vector quantization; Distributed estimation; Distributed source coding; Information fusion

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION THEORY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

DECENTRALIZED VECTOR QUANTIZATION; DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING; INFORMATION FUSION;

SENSORS;

EID: 17144365786     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.843544     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. S. J. Pister, "Next century challenges: Mobile networking for 'Smart dust'," in Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Mobile Comput. Netw. (MOBICOM), Seattle, WA, Aug. 1999, [Online]. Available: citeseer.nj.nec.com/kahn99next.html, pp. 271-278.
2. H. V. Poor, An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1994.
3. J. Chou, D. Petrovic, and K. Ramchandran, "Tracking and exploiting correlations in dense sensor networks," in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst. Comput., Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2002, pp. 39-43.
4. M. Gastpar and M. Vetterli, "Source-channel communication in sensor networks," in Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop Inf. Process. Sensor Netw., Palo Alto, CA, Apr. 2003, pp. 162-177.
5. J. Chen and T. Berger, "Robust coding schemes for distributed sensor networks with unreliable sensors," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Chicago, IL, Jun. 2004, p. 116.
6. Y. Oohama, "The rate-distortion function for the quadratic Gaussian CEO problem," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 55-67, May 1998.
7. J. Chen, X. Zhang, T. Berger, and S. B. Wicker, "An upper bound on the sum-rate distortion function and its corresponding rate allocation schemes for the CEO problem," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., Special Issue on Sensor Networks, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 977-987, Aug. 2004.
8. V. Prabhakaran, D. Tse, and K. Ramchandran, "Rate-region of the quadratic Gaussian CEO problem," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Chicago, IL, Jun. 2004, p. 119.
9. R. Puri, P. Ishwar, S. S. Pradhan, and K. Ramchandran, "Rate-constrained robust estimation for unreliable sensor networks," in Proc. 36th Annu. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst., Comput., Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2002, pp. 235-239.
10. D. Marco and D. L. Neuhoff, "Reliability versus efficiency in distributed source coding for field-gathering sensor networks," in Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. Inf. Process. in Sensor Netw., Berkeley, CA, Apr. 26-27, 2004, pp. 161-168.
11. D. Slepian and J. K. Wolf, "Noiseless coding of correlated information sources," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 19, pp. 471-480, Jul. 1973.
12. A. Wyner and J. Ziv, "The rate-distortion function for source coding with side information at the decoder," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-10, Jan. 1976.
13. S. S. Pradhan, J. Kusuma, and K. Ramchandran, "Distributed compression in a dense microsensor network," Signal Process. Mag., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 51-60, Mar. 2002.
14. S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran, "Distributed source coding using syndromes (DISCUS): Design and construction," in Proc. Data Compression Conf. (DCC), Snowbird, UT, Mar. 1999, pp. 158-167.
15. _, "Distributed source coding: Symmetric rates and applications to sensor networks," in Proc. Data Compression Conf. (DCC), Snowbird, UT, Mar. 2000, pp. 363-372.
16. E. B. Hall, A. E. Wessel, and G. L. Wise, "Some aspects of fusion in estimation theory," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 420-422, Mar. 1991.
17. D. J. Sakrison, "Source encoding in the presence of random disturbance," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. IT-14, no. 1, pp. 165-167, Jan. 1968.
18. J. Wolf and J. Ziv, "Transmission of noisy information to a noisy receiver with minimum distortion," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 406-411, Jul. 1970.
19. T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory. New York: Wiley, 1991.
20. R. G. Gallager, Information Theory and Reliable Communication. New York: Wiley, 1968.
21. S. S. Pradhan, R. Puri, and K. Ramchandran, "n-Channel symmetric multiple descriptions - Part I: (n, k) source-channel erasure codes," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 47-61, Jan. 2004.
22. G. L. Wise, "A note on a common misconception in estimation," Syst. Control Lett., vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 355-356, Apr. 1985.
23. S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran, "Generalized coset codes for distributed binning," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2003, submitted for publication.
24. T. Berger, "Multiterminal source coding," in Information Theory Approach to Communication, (CISM Courses and Lecture Notes no. 229), G. Longo, Ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1977.