Distributed M-ary hypothesis testing with binary local decisions

Information Fusion

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 157-167

  Zhu, Xiaoxun ^a   Yuan, Yingqin ^b   Rorres, Chris ^c   Kam, Moshe ^b  

^a Metrologic Instruments Inc   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision fusion; Distributed hypothesis testing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA REDUCTION; DECISION THEORY; DEMODULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

ASYMPTOTIC DETECTION; BINARY MESSAGES; DECISION FUSION; DISTRIBUTED HYPOTHESIS TESTING;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 3142748471     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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