On the optimality of the likelihood-ratio test for local sensor decision rules in the presence of nonideal channels

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 693-699

  Chen, Biao ^a   Willett, Peter K ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed detection; Likelihood ratio quantizers; Minimum error probability; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL DETECTION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED DETECTION; LIKELIHOOD RATIO QUANTIZERS; MINIMUM ERROR PROBABILITY; SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 13444288065     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2004.840879     Document Type: Article

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