Communication efficient channel estimation over distributed networks
Author
Sayın, Muhammed O.
Vanlı, N. Denizcan
Göze, T.
Kozat, Süleyman Serdar
Date
2014Source Title
Proceedings of the GlobalSIP 2014: 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, IEEE 2014
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
138 - 142
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
We study diffusion based channel estimation in distributed architectures suitable for various communication applications such as cognitive radios. Although the demand for distributed processing is steadily growing, these architectures require a substantial amount of communication among their nodes (or processing elements) causing significant energy consumption and increase in carbon footprint. Due to growing awareness of telecommunication industry's impact on the environment, the need to mitigate this problem is indisputable. To this end, we introduce algorithms significantly reducing the communication load between distributed nodes, which is the main cause in energy consumption, while providing outstanding performance. In this framework, after each node produces its local estimate of the communication channel, a single bit or a couple of bits of information is generated using certain random projections. This newly generated data is diffused and then used in neighboring nodes to recover the original full information, i.e., the channel estimate of the desired communication channel. We provide the complete state-space description of these algorithms and demonstrate the substantial gains through our experiments.
Keywords
Carbon footprintCognitive radio
Communication channels (information theory)
Network architecture
Telecommunication industry
Communication application
Diffusion based channels
Distributed architecture
Distributed networks
Distributed processing
Impact on the environment
Processing elements
State-space description
Channel estimation