On scalability and robustness limitations of real and asymptotic confidence bounds in social sensing

Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks workshops

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 506-514

  Wang, Dong ^a   Kaplan, Lance ^c   Abdelzaher, Tarek ^a,b   Aggarwal, Charu C ^d  

^a University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CRLB; Quantification; Robustness; Scalability; Social Sensing

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC BOUNDS; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; CRLB; DATA SOURCE; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; QUANTIFICATION; ROBUST ESTIMATION; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL SENSING; TRACK ESTIMATION;

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; MESH NETWORKING; MOBILE DEVICES; RELIABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SCALABILITY; SENSORS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84867946150     PISSN: 21555486     EISSN: 21555494     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2012.6275819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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