Decision fusion rules in multi-hop wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 475-488

  Lin, Ying ^a   Chen, Biao ^a   Varshney, Pramod K ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION FUSION RULES; FADING CHANNEL GAINS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 24944518480     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2005.1468742     Document Type: Article

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