A novel multisensor integration approach for distributed detection systems with data fusion
Ashraf M. Aziz, Mohamed Abdelazeem, Ahmed El-Bakly, Waheed Sabry · The International Conference on Electrical Engineering/The International Conference on Electrical Engineering · 2010
In this paper, we consider a binary distributed detection system in which a system ofmultiple sensors monitors a common volume and provides relevant binary decisionsabout the state of the environment to a data fusion center. The fusion center combinesthe binary decisions of the individual distributed sensors into a final global decision. Wepropose a new hard decision integration method for multiple sensor decision fusionsystems. The proposed hard decision fusion method determines the false alarmprobabilities and the detection probabilities that yield maximum performance. Theperformance of the proposed method is provided in case of Rayleigh distributedobservations and is proved to be simple and efficient.