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Table 2 Comparison of computational complexity and communication overhead for centralized, decentralized, federated decentralized, and federated distributed filter

From: A distributed multi-robot adaptive sampling scheme for the estimation of the spatial distribution in widespread fields

 

Computations

Communication

 

Robot

Fusion center

Combined

 

Centralized filter

O(qNL3)

O(qNL3)

O(qN)

Completely decentralized filter

O(qL3 + (N – 1)rL3)

O(NqL3 + N(N – 1)rL3)

O(N(N – 1)r(L2 + L))

Federated decentralized filter

O(qL3)

O(rL3)

O(NqL3 + rL3)

O(2Nr(L2 + L))

Federated distributed filter

O(qM3)

O(rL3)

O(NqM3 + rL3)

O(Nr(C2 + C + S2 + S))