Title
Performance Bounds for Remote Estimation under Energy Harvesting Constraints.
Abstract
Remote estimation with an energy harvesting sensor with a limited data and energy buffer is considered. The sensor node observes an unknown Gaussian field and communicates its observations to a remote fusion center using the energy it harvested. The fusion center employs minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation to reconstruct the unknown field. The distortion minimization problem under the online scheme, where the sensor has access to only the statistical information for the future energy packets is considered. We provide performance bounds on the achievable distortion under a slotted block transmission scheme, where at each transmission time slot, the data and the energy buffer are completely emptied. Our bounds provide insights to the trade-offs between the buffer sizes, the statistical properties of the energy harvesting process and the achievable distortion. In particular, these trade-offs illustrate the insensitivity of the performance to the buffer sizes for signals with low degree of freedom and suggest performance improvements with increasing buffer size for signals with relatively higher degree of freedom. Depending only on the mean, variance and finite support of the energy arrival process, these results provide practical insights for the battery and buffer sizes for deployment in future energy harvesting wireless sensing systems.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Information Theory
Sensor node,Mathematical optimization,Wireless,Network packet,Energy harvesting,Gaussian,Fusion center,Transmission time,Distortion,Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1610.02566
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
29
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ayça Özçelikkale1469.06
Tomas McKelvey212125.50
M. Viberg3917188.13