5 research outputs found
Distributed Detection over Fading MACs with Multiple Antennas at the Fusion Center
A distributed detection problem over fading Gaussian multiple-access channels
is considered. Sensors observe a phenomenon and transmit their observations to
a fusion center using the amplify and forward scheme. The fusion center has
multiple antennas with different channel models considered between the sensors
and the fusion center, and different cases of channel state information are
assumed at the sensors. The performance is evaluated in terms of the error
exponent for each of these cases, where the effect of multiple antennas at the
fusion center is studied. It is shown that for zero-mean channels between the
sensors and the fusion center when there is no channel information at the
sensors, arbitrarily large gains in the error exponent can be obtained with
sufficient increase in the number of antennas at the fusion center. In stark
contrast, when there is channel information at the sensors, the gain in error
exponent due to having multiple antennas at the fusion center is shown to be no
more than a factor of (8/pi) for Rayleigh fading channels between the sensors
and the fusion center, independent of the number of antennas at the fusion
center, or correlation among noise samples across sensors. Scaling laws for
such gains are also provided when both sensors and antennas are increased
simultaneously. Simple practical schemes and a numerical method using
semidefinite relaxation techniques are presented that utilize the limited
possible gains available. Simulations are used to establish the accuracy of the
results.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Signal
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Reduced Complexity Optimal Hard Decision Fusion under Neyman-Pearson Criterion
Distributed detection is an important part of many of the applications like wireless sensor networks,
cooperative spectrum sensing in the cognitive radio network. Traditionally optimal non-randomized
hard decision fusion rule under Neyman Pearson(NP) criterion is exponential in complexity. But
recently [4] this was solved using dynamic programming. As mentioned in [4] that decision fusion
problem exhibits semi-monotonic property in a special case. We use this property in our simulations
and eventually apply dynamic programming to solve the problem with further reduced complexity.
Further, we study the e�ect of using multiple antennas at FC with reduced complexity rule
Estimation in Phase-Shift and Forward Wireless Sensor Networks
We consider a network of single-antenna sensors that observe an unknown
deterministic parameter. Each sensor applies a phase shift to the observation
and the sensors simultaneously transmit the result to a multi-antenna fusion
center (FC). Based on its knowledge of the wireless channel to the sensors, the
FC calculates values for the phase factors that minimize the variance of the
parameter estimate, and feeds this information back to the sensors. The use of
a phase-shift-only transmission scheme provides a simplified analog
implementation at the sensor, and also leads to a simpler algorithm design and
performance analysis. We propose two algorithms for this problem, a numerical
solution based on a relaxed semidefinite programming problem, and a closed-form
solution based on the analytic constant modulus algorithm. Both approaches are
shown to provide performance close to the theoretical bound. We derive
asymptotic performance analyses for cases involving large numbers of sensors or
large numbers of FC antennas, and we also study the impact of phase errors at
the sensor transmitters. Finally, we consider the sensor selection problem, in
which only a subset of the sensors is chosen to send their observations to the
FC.Comment: 28 pages, 5 figures, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, Apr. 201
Distributed Detection over Gaussian Multiple Access Channels with Constant Modulus Signaling
A distributed detection scheme where the sensors transmit with constant
modulus signals over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. The
deflection coefficient of the proposed scheme is shown to depend on the
characteristic function of the sensing noise and the error exponent for the
system is derived using large deviation theory. Optimization of the deflection
coefficient and error exponent are considered with respect to a transmission
phase parameter for a variety of sensing noise distributions including
impulsive ones. The proposed scheme is also favorably compared with existing
amplify-and-forward and detect-and-forward schemes. The effect of fading is
shown to be detrimental to the detection performance through a reduction in the
deflection coefficient depending on the fading statistics. Simulations
corroborate that the deflection coefficient and error exponent can be
effectively used to optimize the error probability for a wide variety of
sensing noise distributions.Comment: 30 pages, 12 figure