Distributed detection of information flows

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 390-403

  He, Ting ^a,b   Tong, Lang ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed detection; Information flow; Information theoretic limits; Traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

FUSION REACTIONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

ACHIEVABILITY; AND DETECTION; CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; DATA TRANSMISSIONS; DETECTABILITY; DETECTION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DETECTION; FLOW MODELLING; FUSION CENTER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFORMATION FLOW; INFORMATION FLOWS; INFORMATION-THEORETIC LIMITS; LOCAL SENSORS; NON-PARAMETRIC; QUANTIZATION SCHEMES; RATE CONSTRAINTS; RATE FUNCTIONS; T HRESHOLD DETECTION; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC SENSORS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 49549090679     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.928537     Document Type: Article

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