Fault-tolerant decision fusion via collaborative sensor fault detection in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 756-768

  Wang, Tsang Yi ^a,b   Chang, Li Yuan ^c   Duh, Dyi Rong ^d   Wu, Jeng Yang ^d  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision fusion; Distributed detection; Fault tolerance; Sensor fault detection; Sensor networks; Wireless network

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANCE;

DISTRIBUTED DECISION FUSION; SENSOR FAULT DETECTION;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 39749143224     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.060653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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