One-bit quantization and distributed detection with an unknown scale parameter

DOI10.3390/A8030621MaRDI QIDQ1736695zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fei Gao, Lili Guo, Hongbin Li, Jun Fang

Publication date 26 March 2019

Published in Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/a8030621

zbMATH Keywords

decentralized detectionone-bit scalar quantizationwireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13)

Review text

Summary: We examine a distributed detection problem in a wireless sensor network, where sensor nodes collaborate to detect a Gaussian signal with an unknown change of power, \textit{i.e.}, a scale parameter. Due to power/bandwidth constraints, we consider the case where each sensor quantizes its observation into a binary digit. The binary data are then transmitted through error-prone wireless links to a fusion center, where a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) detector is employed to perform a global decision. We study the design of a binary quantizer based on an asymptotic analysis of the GLRT. Interestingly, the quantization threshold of the quantizer is independent of the unknown scale parameter. Numerical results are included to illustrate the performance of the proposed quantizer and GLRT in binary symmetric channels (BSCs).

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