Coherent max-log decision fusion in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1327-1332

  Lei, Andre ^a   Schober, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Fading channels; Multiple hypothesis testing; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BINARY DECISION; DECISION FUSION; EQUAL-GAIN COMBINING; FUSION CENTER; FUSION RULE; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OPTIMAL FUSION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

ANTENNAS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; INFORMATION FUSION; OPTIMIZATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77952554969     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2010.05.090100     Document Type: Article

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