@inproceedings{b8442895c77e4798861e120f39be235e,
title = "To cooperate or not to cooperate: detection strategies in sensor networks",
abstract = "This paper is an initial investigation into the following question: can cooperation among sensors in a sensor network improve detection performance in a simple hypothesis test? We analyze a simple cooperative system using the Kullback-Leibler (KL) discrimination distance and a quantity known as the information transfer ratio which is a ratio of KL distances. We discover that, asymptotically, gain over a non-cooperative system depends on the conditional KL distance. We conclude with an illustrative example which demonstrates that cooperation not only significantly improves performance but can also degrade it.",
keywords = "intelligent networks, detectors, information processing, testing, sensor fusion, information analysis, cooperative systems, degradation, sensor systems, system performance",
author = "Lexa, \{Michael A.\} and Rozell, \{Chris J.\} and Sinan Sinanovic and Johnson, \{Don H.\}",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1326676",
language = "English",
isbn = "0-7803-8484-9",
volume = "3",
series = "2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "841--844",
booktitle = "2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing",
note = "International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2004 Montreal ; Conference date: 17-05-2004 Through 21-05-2004",
}