Distributed detection and fusion in a large wireless sensor network of random size

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2005, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 462-472

  Niu, Ruixin ^a,b   Varshney, Pramod K ^a,b,c  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Decision fusion; Deflection coefficient; Distributed detection; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DEFLECTION COEFFICIENT; OPTIMAL FUSION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (WSN);

ATTENUATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 28444446753     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/WCN.2005.462     Document Type: Article

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