Adaptive cell-averaging CFAR detection in distributed sensor networks
Mourad Barkat, Pramod K. Varshney · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 1991
The problem of adaptive cell-averaging constant false-alarm rate (CFAR) detection is considered for two distributed sensor network topologies, namely the parallel and the tandem topologies. The compressed data transmitted amongst the detectors is assumed to be in the form of decisions. The overall systems are optimized to yield the maximum probability of detection for a fixed probability of false alarm. The performance of the systems is also analyzed.>