Serial Quantization for Sparse Time Sequences

Sparse signals are encountered in a broad range of applications. In order to process these signals using digital hardware, they must be first sampled and quantized using an analog-to-digital convertor (ADC), which typically operates in a serial scalar manner. In this work, we propose a method for...

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Main Authors: Cohen, Alejandro, Shlezinger, Nir, Salamatian, Salman, Eldar, Yonina C, Medard, Muriel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144017
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author Cohen, Alejandro
Shlezinger, Nir
Salamatian, Salman
Eldar, Yonina C
Medard, Muriel
author2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
author_facet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Cohen, Alejandro
Shlezinger, Nir
Salamatian, Salman
Eldar, Yonina C
Medard, Muriel
author_sort Cohen, Alejandro
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description Sparse signals are encountered in a broad range of applications. In order to process these signals using digital hardware, they must be first sampled and quantized using an analog-to-digital convertor (ADC), which typically operates in a serial scalar manner. In this work, we propose a method for serial quantization of sparse time sequences (SQuaTS) inspired by group testing theory, which is designed to reliably and accurately quantize sparse signals acquired in a sequential manner using serial scalar ADCs. Unlike previously proposed approaches which combine quantization and compressed sensing (CS), our SQuaTS scheme updates its representation on each incoming analog sample and does not require the complete signal to be observed and stored in analog prior to quantization. We characterize the asymptotic tradeoff between accuracy and quantization rate of SQuaTS as well as its computational burden. We also propose a variation of SQuaTS, which trades rate for computational efficiency. Next, we show how SQuaTS can be naturally extended to distributed quantization scenarios, where a set of jointly sparse time sequences are acquired individually and processed jointly. Our numerical results demonstrate that SQuaTS is capable of achieving substantially improved representation accuracy over previous CS-based schemes without requiring the complete set of analog signal samples to be observed prior to its quantization, making it an attractive approach for acquiring sparse time sequences.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1440172023-06-26T20:15:14Z Serial Quantization for Sparse Time Sequences Cohen, Alejandro Shlezinger, Nir Salamatian, Salman Eldar, Yonina C Medard, Muriel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Sparse signals are encountered in a broad range of applications. In order to process these signals using digital hardware, they must be first sampled and quantized using an analog-to-digital convertor (ADC), which typically operates in a serial scalar manner. In this work, we propose a method for serial quantization of sparse time sequences (SQuaTS) inspired by group testing theory, which is designed to reliably and accurately quantize sparse signals acquired in a sequential manner using serial scalar ADCs. Unlike previously proposed approaches which combine quantization and compressed sensing (CS), our SQuaTS scheme updates its representation on each incoming analog sample and does not require the complete signal to be observed and stored in analog prior to quantization. We characterize the asymptotic tradeoff between accuracy and quantization rate of SQuaTS as well as its computational burden. We also propose a variation of SQuaTS, which trades rate for computational efficiency. Next, we show how SQuaTS can be naturally extended to distributed quantization scenarios, where a set of jointly sparse time sequences are acquired individually and processed jointly. Our numerical results demonstrate that SQuaTS is capable of achieving substantially improved representation accuracy over previous CS-based schemes without requiring the complete set of analog signal samples to be observed prior to its quantization, making it an attractive approach for acquiring sparse time sequences. 2022-07-25T15:41:46Z 2022-07-25T15:41:46Z 2021 2022-07-25T15:33:23Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144017 Cohen, Alejandro, Shlezinger, Nir, Salamatian, Salman, Eldar, Yonina C and Medard, Muriel. 2021. "Serial Quantization for Sparse Time Sequences." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 69. en 10.1109/TSP.2021.3083985 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) arXiv
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