Identifier

etd-05302007-170756

Degree

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

A common way to locate an emitter within a wireless sensor network requires the estimation of time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) parameters using data collected by a set of spatially separated sensors. Compressing the data that is shared among the sensors can provide tremendous savings in terms of the energy and transmission latency. Traditional MSE and perceptual based data compression schemes fail to accurately capture the effects of compression on the TDOA estimation task; therefore, it is necessary to investigate compression algorithms suitable for TDOA parameter estimation. This thesis explores the effects of data compression on TDOA parameter estimation accuracy. The first part of this document investigates the decimation of band-limited communication signals which are oversampled to achieve high precision in the TDOA estimate. In the second part, we follow the work of [19-22] in implementing a Fisher Information-based subband encoding scheme, an approach that has been shown to provide better results than the traditional MSE-based approach. A pseudo-QMF filter bank [8] is implemented, which is computationally more efficient than wavelet packet filter banks, at the cost of relaxing perfect reconstruction conditions. Additionally, a suboptimal bit allocation algorithm is developed which further lessens the sensor resource requirements for compression.

Date

2007

Document Availability at the Time of Submission

Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.

Committee Chair

Jorge L. Aravena

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_theses.3156

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