Fusion in sensor networks with communication constraints

Authors:
Saeed A. Aldosari;José M. F. Moura
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of optimizing the detection performance of sensor networks under communication constraints on the common access channel. Our work helps understanding tradeoffs between sensor network para-meters like number of sensors, degree of quantization at each local sensor, and SNR. Traditionally, this problem is tack-led using asymptotic assumptions on the number of sensors, an approach that leads to the abstraction of important details such as the structure of the fusion center. We adopt a non-asymptotic approach and optimize both, the sensing and the fusion sides with respect to the probability of detection error. We show that the optimal fusion rule has an interesting structure similar to themajority-voting rule. In addition, we study the convergence with respect to the number of sensors of the performance of the fusion rule. We show that convergence is SNR dependent and that, in low-SNR environments, asymptotics may require a large number of sensors.