Distributed Detection with Transmit-Only Sensors and a Successive Interference Cancellation Receiver

Authors

D. Bielefeld, R. Mathar,

Abstract

        A low-cost deployment of wireless sensor networks heavily depends on the availability of low-complexity sensor
nodes. In this paper, a sensor network with simple transmit-only IR-UWB sensor nodes is analyzed, that is deployed for
distributed detection of signals in a region of interest. The nodes transmit their local decisions with a fixed transmission power over non-orthogonal channels to a fusion center, where
the received local decisions are combined to a final decision with
high reliability. The fusion center is assumed to be equipped with a successive interference cancellation receiver. For this receiver, a novel detection ordering scheme tailored for distributed detection is proposed. Numerical results illustrate that it leads to a significant performance gain in terms of the application-specific
performance metric compared to a conventional non application-specific
detection order.

BibTEX Reference Entry 

@inproceedings{BiMa09,
	author = {Daniel Bielefeld and Rudolf Mathar},
	title = "Distributed Detection with Transmit-Only Sensors and a Successive Interference Cancellation Receiver",
	pages = "207-212",
	booktitle = "{IEEE} ISSPIT 2009",
	address = {Ajman, UAE},
	month = Dec,
	year = 2009,
	hsb = hsb910014570,
	}

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