An information theoretic approach to the distributed detection problem
I. Y. Hoballah, Pramod K. Varshney · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1989
The distributed detection problem is considered from an information-theoretic point of view. An entropy-based cost function is used for system optimization. This cost function maximizes the amount of information transfer between the input and the output. Distributed detection system topologies with and without a fusion center are considered, and an optimal fusion rule and optimal decision rules are derived.>