A Class of Doubly Stochastic Shift Operators for Random Graph Signals and their Boundedness

Abstract: A class of doubly stochastic graph shift operators (GSO) is proposed, which is shown to exhibit: (i) lower and upper $L_{2}$-boundedness for locally stationary random graph signals; (ii) $L_{2}$-isometry for \textit{i.i.d.} random graph signals with the asymptotic increase in the incoming neighbourhood size of vertices; and (iii) preservation of the mean of any graph signal. These properties are obtained through a statistical consistency analysis of the graph shift, and by exploiting the dual role of the doubly stochastic GSO as a Markov (diffusion) matrix and as an unbiased expectation operator. Practical utility of the class of doubly stochastic GSOs is demonstrated in a real-world multi-sensor signal filtering setting.