Data fusion improves the coverage of wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 157-168

  Xing, Guoliang ^a   Tan, Rui ^b   Liu, Benyuan ^c   Wang, Jianping ^b   Jia, Xiaohua ^b   Yi, Chih Wei ^d  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coverage; Data fusion; Performance limits; Target detection; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COLLABORATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; DATA FUSION ALGORITHM; DATA TRACES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; FUSION MODEL; MULTIPLE SENSORS; NETWORK DENSITY; NOISY MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SECURITY SURVEILLANCE; SENSING COVERAGE; SENSING FIELDS; SENSING MODEL; SIGNAL PATHS; STOCHASTIC DATA; STOCHASTIC NATURE; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; TARGET DETECTION; VEHICLE DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; MOBILE COMPUTING; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIMULATORS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TARGET DRONES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70450248451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1614320.1614338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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