Quantization of Prior Probabilities for Collaborative Distributed Hypothesis Testing

DOI10.1109/TSP.2012.2200890MaRDI QIDQ4573977zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joong Bum Rhim, Lav R. Varshney, Vivek K. Goyal

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/1109.2567

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

Abstract: This paper studies the quantization of prior probabilities, drawn from an ensemble, for distributed detection and data fusion. Design and performance equivalences between a team of N agents tied by a fixed fusion rule and a more powerful single agent are obtained. Effects of identical quantization and diverse quantization are compared. Consideration of perceived common risk enables agents using diverse quantizers to collaborate in hypothesis testing, and it is proven that the minimum mean Bayes risk error is achieved by diverse quantization. The comparison shows that optimal diverse quantization with K cells per quantizer performs as well as optimal identical quantization with N(K-1)+1 cells per quantizer. Similar results are obtained for maximum Bayes risk error as the distortion criterion.

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