Multiple-symbol differential decision fusion for mobile wireless sensor networks
Lei A, Schober R (2009)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2009
Conference Proceedings Title: GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Event location: Honolulu, HI
ISBN: 9781424441488
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425997
Abstract
We consider the problem of decision fusion in mobile wireless sensor networks where the channels between the sensors and the fusion center are time-variant. We assume that the sensors make independent local decisions on the M hypotheses under test and report these decisions to the fusion center using differential phase-shift keying (DPSK), so as to avoid the channel estimation overhead entailed by coherent decision fusion. For this setup we derive the optimal and three low-complexity, suboptimal fusion rules which do not require knowledge of the instantaneous fading gains. Since all these fusion rules exploit an observation window of at least two symbol intervals, we refer to them collectively as multiple-symbol differential (MSD) fusion rules. Simulation and analytical results confirm the excellent performance of the proposed MSD fusion rules and show that in fast fading channels significant performance gains can be achieved by increasing the observation window to more than two symbol intervals.
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APA:
Lei, A., & Schober, R. (2009). Multiple-symbol differential decision fusion for mobile wireless sensor networks. In GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. Honolulu, HI, US.
MLA:
Lei, Andre, and Robert Schober. "Multiple-symbol differential decision fusion for mobile wireless sensor networks." Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2009, Honolulu, HI 2009.
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