Decentralized detection in clustered sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 959-973

  Ferrari, Gianluigi ^a   Martalò, Marco ^a   Pagliari, Roberto ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; ANALYTICAL PERFORMANCE; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; CLOSED FORM; CLUSTERED SENSOR NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION LINKS; DECENTRALIZED DETECTION; DECISION ERRORS; DECISION LEVELS; DISTRIBUTED DETECTION; FUSION CENTER; FUSION RULE; FUSION STRATEGIES; IEEE 802.15.4; MULTI-LEVEL; NONUNIFORM; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; SIMPLE MAJORITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 79955390510     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2011.5751237     Document Type: Article

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