Optimal Strategies for Communication and Remote Estimation With an Energy Harvesting Sensor

DOI10.1109/TAC.2013.2254615MaRDI QIDQ5353328zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ashutosh Nayyar, Tamer Başar, Demosthenis Teneketzis, Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Publication date 8 September 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic programming (90C39) Decentralized systems (93A14) Estimation and detection in stochastic control theory (93E10) Communication theory (94A05)

Abstract: We consider a remote estimation problem with an energy harvesting sensor and a remote estimator. The sensor observes the state of a discrete-time source which may be a finite state Markov chain or a multi-dimensional linear Gaussian system. It harvests energy from its environment (say, for example, through a solar cell) and uses this energy for the purpose of communicating with the estimator. Due to the randomness of energy available for communication, the sensor may not be able to communicate all the time. The sensor may also want to save its energy for future communications. The estimator relies on messages communicated by the sensor to produce real-time estimates of the source state. We consider the problem of finding a communication scheduling strategy for the sensor and an estimation strategy for the estimator that jointly minimize an expected sum of communication and distortion costs over a finite time horizon. Our goal of joint optimization leads to a decentralized decision-making problem. By viewing the problem from the estimator's perspective, we obtain a dynamic programming characterization for the decentralized decision-making problem that involves optimization over functions. Under some symmetry assumptions on the source statistics and the distortion metric, we show that an optimal communication strategy is described by easily computable thresholds and that the optimal estimate is a simple function of the most recently received sensor observation.

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