Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2007-03-09
Computer Science
Information Theory
14 pages, 31 figures, under review for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Scientific paper
10.1109/TSP.2008.924639
In distributed detection systems with wireless sensor networks, the communication between sensors and a fusion center is not perfect due to interference and limited transmitter power at the sensors to combat noise at the fusion center's receiver. The problem of optimizing detection performance with such imperfect communication brings a new challenge to distributed detection. In this paper, sensors are assumed to have independent but nonidentically distributed observations, and a multi-input/multi-output (MIMO) channel model is included to account for imperfect communication between the sensors and the fusion center. The J-divergence between the distributions of the detection statistic under different hypotheses is used as a performance criterion in order to provide a tractable analysis. Optimizing the performance (in terms of the J-divergence) with individual and total transmitter power constraints on the sensors is studied, and the corresponding power allocation scheme is provided. It is interesting to see that the proposed power allocation is a tradeoff between two factors, the communication channel quality and the local decision quality. For the case with orthogonal channels under certain conditions, the power allocation can be solved by a weighted water-filling algorithm. Simulations show that, to achieve the same performance, the proposed power allocation in certain cases only consumes as little as 25 percent of the total power used by an equal power allocation scheme.
Chiang Mung
Poor Harold Vincent
Zhang Xin
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