Title
Practical Codes for Collaborative Estimation
Abstract
In collaborative estimation a network of nodes, each indirectly observing an underlying source, communicate with each other to form improved estimates of the underlying source. This paper derives an efficient collaborative estimation algorithm achieving high performance estimates with low communication and complexity utilizing tools from multiterminal source coding theory and modern practical coding theory. Relevant theoretical limits based on achievability from multiterminal source coding are first presented in order to characterize efficient tradeoffs between communication and estimation performance and inspire the architecture of the collaborative estimation code. Next low complexity tools from modern practical coding theory are utilized to get a practical collaborative estimation algorithm approaching these performance limits. The developed algorithm utilizes successively refined trellis coded quantization (SR-TCQ) to provide necessary diverse descriptions of the source, and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes to provide an efficient means of compressing these descriptions for low complexity belief propagation decoding with side information. Comparing the communication versus estimate quality tradeoff performance attained by the developed low complexity scheme with that obtainable with an inner bound, an average distortion gap of only 1.0 and 1.6 dB at average rates of 3.32 and 2.33 b/s, respectively, is observed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TSP.2012.2189765
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
belief propagation,collaboration,decoding,estimation,source code,ldpc codes,low density parity check,ldpc code,coding theory,source coding
Journal
60
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1053-587X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
23
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sivagnanasundaram Ramanan141.06
John MacLaren Walsh210717.90