arrow
Return

Joint Data Compression and Time-Delay Estimation for Distributed Systems via Extremum Encoding

delete2025-01-01
delete0
PRE
AI
A
Amir Weiss
Y
Yuval Kochman
G
Gregory W. Wornell
DOI:10.1109/TSP.2025.3567902delete
deleteOriginal
deleteOriginal request for help
deleteShare
deleteSave
Abstract

Abstract

En 中文
Motivated by the ubiquity of mobile devices and their potential capabilities as distributed systems (e.g., for localization), we consider a time-delay estimation (TDE) problem in which there are two non-colocated sensors and communication constraints between them. When the communication bandwidth is particularly limited, there is a need for compression techniques that are specifically tailored for the TDE application. For the discrete-time version of this problem, we propose such a joint compression-estimation strategy based on what we term “extremum encoding”, whereby the (time-) index of the maximum of the observed signal in a finite observation window is sent from one sensor to another. Subsequent joint processing of the encoded message with the locally observed, time-delayed, noisy signal gives rise to our proposed time-delay “maximum-index”-based estimator. We analyze the performance of the proposed scheme in the asymptotic regime of large message size and delay spread, but with their ratio fixed. We derive the error probability exponent for this estimator, and its consistency. We validate the analysis via simulations, and further demonstrate the performance gains over traditional alternatives.
Keywords:
Time-delay estimation
compression
distributed estimation
compression for estimation
max-index estimator

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing cover
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IF:
13.7
Papers:
1.0W
Citations:
8.4W

Organization

M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scholars:
2.4K
Papers: 1.1K
Citations: 8
B
Bar-Ilan University
Scholars:
522
Papers: 255
Citations: 1.1W
T
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Scholars:
1.3K
Papers: 503
Citations: 1
researcher View more organizations
Cited Papers

Cited Papers

Order Statistics
err2004-07-15
err0
PREAI
errH. A. David; H. N. Nagaraja
errShare
errSave
A Semi-Blind Method for Localization of Underwater Acoustic Sources
err2022-01-01
err0
errOAAI
errAmir Weiss; Toros Arikan; Hari Vishnu; Grant B. Deane; Andrew C. Singer; Gregory W. Wornell
errShare
errSave
researcher View more