Cooperative information aggregation for distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3876-3888

  Tsai, Yuh Ren ^a   Chang, Cheng Ju ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed estimation; imperfect channel; maximum likelihood estimation (MLE); wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

CODEWORD; COMMUNICATION ERRORS; COMMUNICATION LOAD; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; ESTIMATION RESULTS; FUSION CENTER; HARD DECISIONS; IMPERFECT CHANNEL; INFORMATION AGGREGATION; INFORMATION BIT; MULTI-BITS; NETWORK LIFETIME; OBSERVATION NOISE; QUANTIZERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION POLICY; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SIMULATION RESULT;

COMMUNICATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79960398929     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2153847     Document Type: Article

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