Estimation diversity and energy efficiency in distributed sensing

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4683-4695

  Cui, Shuguang ^a   Xiao, Jin Jun ^b   Goldsmith, Andrea J ^c,d   Luo, Zhi Quan ^e   Poor, H Vincent ^f  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c Quantenna Communications Inc   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

^e University of Minnesota   (United States)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed estimation; Energy efficiency; Estimation diversity; Estimation outage

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FADING CHANNELS; OUTAGES; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION DIVERSITY; ESTIMATION OUTAGE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34548264227     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.896019     Document Type: Article

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