Transmission Strategies for Remote Estimation under Energy Harvesting Constraints

• We consider the remote estimation of a time- correlated field using an energy harvesting (EH) sensor. The sensor observes the unknown field and communicates its observa- tions to a remote fusion center using an amplify-forward strategy. We consider the design of optimal transmission strategies in order to minimize the mean-square error (MSE) at the fusion center. Contrary to traditional approaches, the degree of correlation between the field values constitutes an important aspect of our formulation. We provide the optimal power allocation strategies for a number of illustrative scenarios, including the circularly wide-sense stationary (c.w.s.s.) signals with static correlation coefficient and the sampled low-pass c.w.s.s. signals. Based on these results, we propose low-complexity policies for the general case. Numerical evaluations illustrate the performance of the optimal and the low-complexity policies.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Telekommunikation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Telecommunications (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Signalbehandling (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Signal Processing (hsv//eng)

Keyword

correlated signal

correlated field

off-line optimization

sensing

amplify-forward

signal reconstruction

energy harvesting

remote estimation

MMSE

linear encoding

signal recovery

distortion minimization

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