Asymptotic Optimal Quantizer Design for Distributed Bayesian Estimation
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2016
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472370
Abstract
In this paper, we address the optimal quantizer design problem for distributed Bayesian parameter estimation with one-bit quantization at local sensors. A performance limit obtained for any distributed parameter estimator with a known prior is adopted as a guidance for quantizer design. Aided by the performance limit, the optimal quantizer and a set of noisy observation models that achieve the performance limit are derived. Further, when the performance limit may not be achievable for some applications, we develop a nearoptimal estimator which consists of a dithered noise and a single threshold quantizer. In the scenario where the parameter is Gaussian and signal-to-noise ratio is greater than −1.138 dB, we show that one can construct such an estimator that achieves approximately 99.65% of the performance limit.
Publication Information
Li, Xia; Guo, Jun; Rogers, Uri; and Chen, Hao. (2016). "Asymptotic Optimal Quantizer Design for Distributed Bayesian Estimation". 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing: Proceedings, 3711-3715.