
We consider distributed recursive estimation of consensus+innovations type in the presence of heavy-tailed sensing and communication noises. We allow that the sensing and communication noises are mutually correlated while independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) in time, and that they may both have infinite moments of order higher than one (hence having infinite variances). Such heavy-tailed, infinite-variance noises are highly relevant in practice and are shown to occur, e.g., in dense internet of things (IoT) deployments. We develop a consensus+innovations distributed estimator that employs a general nonlinearity in both consensus and innovations steps to combat the noise. We establish the estimator's almost sure convergence, asymptotic normality, and mean squared error (MSE) convergence. Moreover, we establish and explicitly quantify for the estimator a sublinear MSE convergence rate. We then quantify through analytical examples the effects of the nonlinearity choices and the noises correlation on the system performance. Finally, numerical examples corroborate our findings and verify that the proposed method works in the simultaneous heavy-tail communication-sensing noise setting, while existing methods fail under the same noise conditions.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, correlated noises, Estimation and detection in stochastic control theory, Computer Science - Information Theory, Information Theory (cs.IT), distributed estimation, Optimization and Control (math.OC), Networked control, nonlinear mappings, heavy-tailed noise, FOS: Mathematics, consensus+innovations, 93E10, 93E35, 60G35, 94A13, 62M05, mean square convergence rate, Mathematics - Optimization and Control
FOS: Computer and information sciences, correlated noises, Estimation and detection in stochastic control theory, Computer Science - Information Theory, Information Theory (cs.IT), distributed estimation, Optimization and Control (math.OC), Networked control, nonlinear mappings, heavy-tailed noise, FOS: Mathematics, consensus+innovations, 93E10, 93E35, 60G35, 94A13, 62M05, mean square convergence rate, Mathematics - Optimization and Control
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