Error Feedback Approach for Quantization Noise Reduction of Distributed Graph Filters

Abstract

This work introduces an error feedback approach for reducing quantization noise of distributed graph filters. It comes from error spectrum shaping techniques from state-space digital filters, and therefore establishes connections between quantized filtering processes over different domains. Quantization noise expression incorporating error feedback for finite impulse response (FIR) and autoregressive moving average (ARMA) graph filters are both derived with regard to time-invariant and time-varying graph topologies. Theoretical analysis is provided, and closed-form error weight coefficients are found. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in noise reduction for the graph filters regardless of the deterministic and random graph topologies.