Optimal m-ary data fusion with distributed sensors
Woon-Young Baek, S. Bommareddy · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 1995
An optimal data fusion rule is derived for an m-ary detection problem. Each detector determines a local decision using a local decision rule and transmits the local decision to the fusion center. Considering the reliability of local detectors, local decisions are combined to produce the final decision. In this study, based upon the maximum posterior probability concept, optimal decision rules for m-ary detection problems are proposed for the local detector and the data fusion center.>