A combined decision fusion and channel coding scheme for distributed fault-tolerant classification in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1695-1705

  Wang, Tsang Yi ^a,b   Han, Yunghsiang S ^a,c   Chen, Biao ^a,d   Varshney, Pramod K ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding; Decision fusion; Distributed classification; Fading channels; Multisensor fusion; Soft decision decoding; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DECISION FUSION; DISTRIBUTED CLASSIFICATION; SOFT DECISION DECODING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33748125343     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2006.1673081     Document Type: Article

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