Distributed inference in wireless sensor networks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1958, 2012, Pages 100-117

  Veeravalli, Venugopal V ^a   Varshney, Pramod K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized detection and estimation; Distributed detection; Distributed estimation; Target tracking

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESEARCH; SENSORS; TARGET TRACKING;

DECENTRALIZED DETECTION; DISTRIBUTED DETECTION; DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE; INFERENCE PROBLEM; RESEARCH AREAS; RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; UNIQUE FEATURES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84855499819     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0194     Document Type: Article

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