Distributed coordination in network information theory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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2005
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| author | Schein, Brett E. (Brett Eric) |
| author2 | Robert Gallager. |
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| description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/167862019-04-10T09:38:03Z Distributed coordination in network information theory Schein, Brett E. (Brett Eric) Robert Gallager. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231). This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Constructing a large-scale wireless data network is spectacularly expensive. It is therefore important to understand how to efficiently utilize the physical infrastructure and available battery power, which are expensive system resources. Unfortunately, we currently understand very little about efficient communication in a distributed environment. In distributed wireless networks, there appears to be an interesting and complex trade-off between trying to take advantage of independent noisy signals at different relays and closely coordinating relay transmissions to a receiver. Designing the right structure for efficient communication, by choice of source transmission codebook and relay terminal processing, is the important and difficult problem on which we focus. We use an information theoretic framework to study several very simple multiple terminal networks, focusing exclusively on single source, single destination networks where communication must take place through intermediate nodes. Our goal is to determine how much data we can get reliably from source to destination, placing no importance on delay or computational complexity. The core problem then involves distributed detection at the intermediate nodes and coordination in relaying information to the destination. by Brett E. Schein. Ph.D. 2005-05-19T14:35:14Z 2005-05-19T14:35:14Z 2001 2001 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16786 49839193 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 231 p. 1678843 bytes 1678596 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Schein, Brett E. (Brett Eric) Distributed coordination in network information theory |
| title | Distributed coordination in network information theory |
| title_full | Distributed coordination in network information theory |
| title_fullStr | Distributed coordination in network information theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Distributed coordination in network information theory |
| title_short | Distributed coordination in network information theory |
| title_sort | distributed coordination in network information theory |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16786 |
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