Decentralized sensor selection for large-scale multisensor-multitarget tracking

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1307-1324

  Tharmarasa, R ^a   Kirubarajan, T ^a   Sinha, A ^b   Lang, T ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b A U G SIGNALS LTD   (Canada)

^c General Dynamics Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS; DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION; FUSION CENTER; ITS EFFICIENCIES; LARGE-SCALE SENSORS; MULTI-TARGET TRACKING; MULTISENSOR MULTITARGET TRACKING; OPTIMIZATION-BASED ALGORITHM; REAL TIME; SAMPLING TIME; SENSOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SENSOR SELECTION; SIMULATION RESULT; TRACKING ACCURACY; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; TRACKING SYSTEM; UPPER LIMITS;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

SENSORS;

EID: 79955419871     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2011.5751260     Document Type: Article

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