On Remote Estimation with Multiple Communication Channels

04/08/2018
by   Xiaobin Gao, et al.
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This paper considers a sequential sensor scheduling and remote estimation problem with multiple communication channels. Departing from the classical remote estimation paradigm, which involves one communication channel (noiseless or noisy), we consider here the more realistic setting of two channels with different characteristics (one is cheap but noisy, the other one is costly but noiseless). We first show, via a counter-example, that the common folklore of applying symmetric threshold-based policy, which is well known to be optimal (for unimodal state densities) in the classical remote estimation problem, can no longer be optimal in our setting. In view of that, and in order to make the problem tractable, we introduce a side channel which signals to the receiver the sign of the underlying state. We show, under some technical assumptions, that a threshold-in-threshold based communication scheduling is optimal. The impact of the results is analyzed numerically based on dynamic programming. This numerical analysis reveals some rather surprising results inheriting known properties from the single channel settings, such as not exhausting all the opportunities available for the noisy channel.

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