Sensor selection and rate distribution based beamforming in wireless acoustic sensor networks

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Abstract

Power usage is an important aspect of wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) and reducing the amount of information that is to be transmitted is one effective way to save it. In previous contributions, we presented sensor selection as well as rate distribution methods to reduce the power usage of beamforming algorithms in WASNs. Taking only transmission power into account, it was shown that rate distribution is a generalization of sensor selection and that rate distribution is more efficient than sensor selection with respect to the power usage versus performance trade-off. However, this excludes the energy consumption that it takes to keep the WASN nodes activated. In this paper, we present a more detailed comparison between sensor selection and rate-allocation by taking also into account the power to keep sensors activated for centralized WASNs. The framework is formulated by minimizing the total power usage, while lower bounding the noise reduction performance. Numerical results show that whether rate distribution is more efficient than sensor selection depends on the actual power that is used to keep sensors activated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEUSIPCO 2019 - 27th European Signal Processing Conference
PublisherEuropean Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO
Number of pages5
Volume2019-September
ISBN (Electronic)9789082797039
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2019
Event27th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2019 - A Coruna, Spain
Duration: 2 Sept 20196 Sept 2019

Conference

Conference27th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CityA Coruna
Period2/09/196/09/19

Keywords

  • Beamforming
  • Energy consumption
  • Rate distribution
  • Sensor selection
  • Wireless acoustic sensor networks

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