On the optimal power-distortion tradeoff in asymmetric Gaussian sensor network

Authors:
Hamid Behroozi;M. Reza Soleymani
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We present necessary and sufficient conditions, similar to the recent results of Gastpar [1], for the achievability of all power-distortion tuples (P, D) = (P1, P2, ... , PL, D) in an asymmetric Gaussian sensor network where L distributed sensors transmit noisy observations of a Gaussian source through a Gaussian multiple access channel to a fusion center. We show numerically that in general the gap between the provided upper bound and the lower bound of the distortion D is small. We also provide an optimal power allocation that minimizes the total power consumption, P = Σi=1L Pi, for uncoded transmission scheme while satisfying a given distortion constraint D. Numerical evaluations show that by applying the optimal power allocation uncoded transmission can perform nearly optimal in an asymmetric sensor network subject to a sum-power constraint. In the symmetric case both bounds agree and provide the optimal power-distortion tradeoff (P, D); this agrees with result of [1]. Thus, in the sense of achieving the optimal (P, D) tradeoff, uncoded transmission is optimal in the symmetric case and can be nearly-optimal in the asymmetric case.