Communications in Information and Systems

Volume 15 (2015)

Number 4

Performance analysis of distributed adaptive filters

Pages: 453 – 476

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CIS.2015.v15.n4.a2

Authors

Chen Chen (Key Laboratory of Systems and Control, Institute of Systems Science, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Zhixin Liu (Key Laboratory of Systems and Control, Institute of Systems Science, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Lei Guo (Key Laboratory of Systems and Control, Institute of Systems Science, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Abstract

This paper investigates the tracking performance of the normalized least mean square (LMS) based distributed adaptive filters, where a set of filters are designed to estimate the unknown time-varying parameters or signals using noisy measurements in a cooperative way. We show that under a general connected topology, the tracking error covariances of the distributed filters can be approximately described and calculated by a simple, linear and deterministic matrix difference equation. Different from most of the existing results, we do not require the regression vectors to satisfy stationarity or independency assumptions, which makes our theory applicable to stochastic systems with feedback.

Published 13 June 2016