Decentralized Detection with Long-Distance Communication (Invited Paper)
O. Patrick Kreidl, Alan S. Willsky · 2008
We consider the well-studied decentralized Bayesian detection problem with the twist that a small subset of nodes (all arranged in a given directed network topology) may also com- municate to long-distance neighbors via an overlay undirected network topology. Providing a certain condition on the interface between the two networks is upheld, the natural combination of the efficient team solutions already known for each type of network alone remains team-optimal in the combined network.