Signaling in Sensor Networks for Sequential Detection

DOI10.1109/TCNS.2014.2367358zbMATH Open1370.93297arXiv1403.3126MaRDI QIDQ5358441FDOQ5358441

Authors: Ashutosh Nayyar, Demosthenis Teneketzis 

Publication date: 21 September 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Sequential detection problems in sensor networks are considered. The true state of nature/true hypothesis is modeled as a binary random variable $H$ with known prior distribution. There are $N$ sensors making noisy observations about the hypothesis; $mathcalN=1,2,ldots,N$ denotes the set of sensors. Sensor $i$ can receive messages from a subset $mathcal{P}^{i}subsetmathcalN$ of sensors and send a message to a subset $mathcal{C}^{i}subsetmathcalN$. Each sensor is faced with a stopping problem. At each time $t$, based on the observations it has taken so far and the messages it may have received, sensor $i$ can decide to stop and communicate a binary decision to the sensors in $mathcal{C}^i$, or it can continue taking observations and receiving messages. After sensor $i$'s binary decision has been sent, it becomes inactive. Sensors incur operational costs (cost of taking observations, communication costs etc.) while they are active. In addition, the system incurs a terminal cost that depends on the true hypothesis $H$, the sensors' binary decisions and their stopping times. The objective is to determine decision strategies for all sensors to minimize the total expected cost.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3126

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13) Identification in stochastic control theory (93E12)

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