Hyperplane-based vector quantization for distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Random field estimation with delay-constrained and delay-tolerant wireless sensor networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on signal processing-assisted protocols and algorithms for cooperating objects and wireless sensor networks
Distributed iterative quantization for interference characterization in wireless networks
Digital Signal Processing
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In large-scale wireless sensor networks, sensor-processor elements (nodes) are densely deployed to monitor the environment; consequently, their observations form a random field that is highly correlated in space. We consider a fusion sensor-network architecture where, due to the bandwidth and energy constraints, the nodes transmit quantized data to a fusion center. The fusion center provides feedback by broadcasting summary information to the nodes. In addition to saving energy, this feedback ensures reliability and robustness to node and fusion-center failures. We assume that the sensor observations follow a linear-regression model with known spatial covariances between any two locations within a region of interest. We propose a Bayesian framework for adaptive quantization, fusion-center feedback, and estimation of the random field and its parameters. We also derive a simple suboptimal scheme for estimating the unknown parameters, apply our estimation approach to the no-feedback scenario, discuss field prediction at arbitrary locations within the region of interest, and present numerical examples demonstrating the performance of the proposed methods.