Sequential problems in decentralized detection with communication

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 5410-5435

  Nayyar, Ashutosh ^a   Teneketzis, Demosthenis ^a  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized detection; dynamic teams; stopping problems

Indexed keywords

BINARY MESSAGE; DECENTRALIZED DETECTION; NOISY OBSERVATIONS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PARAMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION; PERIPHERAL SENSORS; SEQUENTIAL PROBLEMS; STOPPING PROBLEMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; OPTIMIZATION;

SENSORS;

EID: 79961001280     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2011.2158478     Document Type: Article

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