Optimal Identical Binary Quantizer Design for Distributed Estimation

DOI10.1109/TSP.2012.2191777MaRDI QIDQ4573894zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Swarnendu Kar, Hao Chen, Pramod K. Varshney

Publication date 18 July 2018

Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6907

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

Abstract: We consider the design of identical one-bit probabilistic quantizers for distributed estimation in sensor networks. We assume the parameter-range to be finite and known and use the maximum Cram'er-Rao Lower Bound (CRB) over the parameter-range as our performance metric. We restrict our theoretical analysis to the class of antisymmetric quantizers and determine a set of conditions for which the probabilistic quantizer function is greatly simplified. We identify a broad class of noise distributions, which includes Gaussian noise in the low-SNR regime, for which the often used threshold-quantizer is found to be minimax-optimal. Aided with theoretical results, we formulate an optimization problem to obtain the optimum minimax-CRB quantizer. For a wide range of noise distributions, we demonstrate the superior performance of the new quantizer - particularly in the moderate to high-SNR regime.

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