TY - GEN
T1 - Asymptotic analysis of distributed estimation over fading multiple access channels
AU - Tepedelenlioglu, Cihan
AU - Banavar, Mahesh K.
AU - Spanias, Andreas
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - We consider a distributed estimation problem where sensors transmit their observations over fading channels to a fusion center (PC), where the parameter is estimated. We calculate the variance of the estimate when we have full, partial and no channel information at the sensors. We compare these with a benchmark obtained when the channels are AWGN. We show that while having no CSI at the sensors leads to bad performance, partial CSI at the sensors is sufficient to get reliable estimates of the parameter. Comparing the performance when the sensors have partial CSI, to when the sensors have full CS I, the deterioration of the variance of the estimator in the case of partial CSI at the sensors is upper bounded by a factor of 4/π, which is about a 2dB power loss.
AB - We consider a distributed estimation problem where sensors transmit their observations over fading channels to a fusion center (PC), where the parameter is estimated. We calculate the variance of the estimate when we have full, partial and no channel information at the sensors. We compare these with a benchmark obtained when the channels are AWGN. We show that while having no CSI at the sensors leads to bad performance, partial CSI at the sensors is sufficient to get reliable estimates of the parameter. Comparing the performance when the sensors have partial CSI, to when the sensors have full CS I, the deterioration of the variance of the estimator in the case of partial CSI at the sensors is upper bounded by a factor of 4/π, which is about a 2dB power loss.
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U2 - 10.1109/ACSSC.2007.4487618
DO - 10.1109/ACSSC.2007.4487618
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50249168738
SN - 9781424421107
T3 - Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
SP - 2140
EP - 2144
BT - Conference Record of the 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC
T2 - 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC
Y2 - 4 November 2007 through 7 November 2007
ER -