TY - GEN
T1 - Exploiting Local and Cloud Sensor Fusion in Intermittently Connected Sensor Networks
AU - Yemini, Michal
AU - Gil, Stephanie
AU - Goldsmith, Andrea
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge support through Intel and through the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award #1845225.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - We consider a detection problem where sensors experience noisy measurements and intermittent communication opportunities to a centralized fusion center (or cloud). The objective of the problem is to arrive at the correct estimate of event detection in the environment. The sensors may communicate locally with other sensors (local clusters) where they fuse their noisy sensor data to estimate the detection of an event locally. In addition, each sensor cluster can intermittently communicate to the cloud, where a centralized fusion center fuses estimates from all sensor clusters to make a final determination regarding the occurrence of the event across the deployment area. We refer to this hybrid communication scheme as a cloud-cluster architecture. Minimizing the expected loss function of networks where noisy sensors are intermittently connected to the cloud, as in our hybrid communication scheme, has not been investigated to our knowledge. We leverage recently improved concentration inequalities to arrive at an optimized decision rule for each cluster and we analyze the expected detection performance resulting from our hybrid scheme. Our analysis shows that clustering the sensors provides resilience to noise in the case of low communication probability with the cloud. For larger clusters, a steep improvement in detection performance is possible even for a low communication probability by using our cloud-cluster architecture.
AB - We consider a detection problem where sensors experience noisy measurements and intermittent communication opportunities to a centralized fusion center (or cloud). The objective of the problem is to arrive at the correct estimate of event detection in the environment. The sensors may communicate locally with other sensors (local clusters) where they fuse their noisy sensor data to estimate the detection of an event locally. In addition, each sensor cluster can intermittently communicate to the cloud, where a centralized fusion center fuses estimates from all sensor clusters to make a final determination regarding the occurrence of the event across the deployment area. We refer to this hybrid communication scheme as a cloud-cluster architecture. Minimizing the expected loss function of networks where noisy sensors are intermittently connected to the cloud, as in our hybrid communication scheme, has not been investigated to our knowledge. We leverage recently improved concentration inequalities to arrive at an optimized decision rule for each cluster and we analyze the expected detection performance resulting from our hybrid scheme. Our analysis shows that clustering the sensors provides resilience to noise in the case of low communication probability with the cloud. For larger clusters, a steep improvement in detection performance is possible even for a low communication probability by using our cloud-cluster architecture.
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9348131
DO - 10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9348131
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85100900125
T3 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020 - Proceedings
BT - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020
Y2 - 7 December 2020 through 11 December 2020
ER -