TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed estimation over fading macs with multiple antennas at the fusion center
AU - Smith, Anthony D.
AU - Banavar, Mahesh K.
AU - Tepedelenlioglu, Cihan
AU - Spanias, Andreas
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - We consider a distributed estimation problem over fading multiple-access channels. Several sensors transmit a parameter to a fusion center using an amplify-and-forward scheme. The fusion center has multiple antennas and uses the transmissions from the sensors to estimate the parameter. In this paper we will assume that the sensors have full channel state information and formulate an optimization problem that needs to be solved to select the best sensor gains. We also propose bounds on the performance and two practical methods that can be implemented in this scenario. By comparing the performance, it is shown that though there is benefit in having multiple antennas at the fusion center, when full channel information is available at the sensors, the gain in performance is at most a factor of 2.
AB - We consider a distributed estimation problem over fading multiple-access channels. Several sensors transmit a parameter to a fusion center using an amplify-and-forward scheme. The fusion center has multiple antennas and uses the transmissions from the sensors to estimate the parameter. In this paper we will assume that the sensors have full channel state information and formulate an optimization problem that needs to be solved to select the best sensor gains. We also propose bounds on the performance and two practical methods that can be implemented in this scenario. By comparing the performance, it is shown that though there is benefit in having multiple antennas at the fusion center, when full channel information is available at the sensors, the gain in performance is at most a factor of 2.
KW - Asymptotic analysis
KW - Asymptotic variance
KW - Distributed estimation
KW - Rayleigh fading
KW - Wireless sensor networks
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U2 - 10.1109/ACSSC.2009.5469849
DO - 10.1109/ACSSC.2009.5469849
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77953829246
SN - 9781424458271
T3 - Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
SP - 424
EP - 428
BT - Conference Record - 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
T2 - 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Y2 - 1 November 2009 through 4 November 2009
ER -