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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING
Volume 51, Issue 8, Pages 2245-2253Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2003.814623
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distributed algorithms; distributed estimation; sensor networks
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This paper considers the problem of density estimation and clustering in distributed sensor networks. It is assumed that each node in the network senses an environment that can be described as a mixture of some elementary conditions. The measurements are thus statistically modeled with a mixture of Gaussians, where each Gaussian component corresponds to one of the elementary conditions. This paper presents a distributed expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for estimating the Gaussian components, which are common to the environment and sensor network as a whole, as well as the mixing probabilities that may vary from node to node. The algorithm produces an estimate (in terms of a Gaussian mixture approximation) of the density of the sensor data without requiring the data to be transmitted to and processed at a central location. Alternatively, the algorithm can be viewed as an distributed processing strategy for clustering the sensor data into components corresponding to predominant environmental features sensed by the network. The convergence of the distributed EM algorithm is investigated, and simulations demonstrate the potential of this approach to sensor network data analysis.
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