Explicit Solutions for Some Simple Decentralized Detection Problems

Abstract

We consider a decentralized detection problem in which a number of identical sensors transmit a finite-valued function of their observations to a fusion center which makes a final decision on one of M alternative hypotheses. We consider the case where the number of sensors is large and we derive (asymptotically) optimal rules for determining the messages of the sensors, for the case where the observations are generated from a simple and symmetrical set of discrete distributions. We also consider the tradeoff between the number of sensors and the communication rate of each sensor where there is a constraint on the total communication rate from the sensors to the fusion center.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA201715

Entities

People

  • George Polychronopoulos
  • John N. Tsitsiklis

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Discrete Distribution
  • Hypotheses
  • Inequalities
  • Low Noise
  • Military Research
  • Noise
  • Notation
  • Observation
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Symmetry
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Computer Networking
  • Statistical inference.