Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2007-01-26
Computer Science
Information Theory
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Scientific paper
We consider a multi-object detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range sensors. This problem complements the widely considered decentralized detection problem where all sensors observe the same object. While the necessity for global collaboration is clear in the decentralized detection problem, the benefits of collaboration with limited range sensors is unclear and has not been widely explored. In this paper we develop a distributed detection approach based on recent development of the false discovery rate (FDR). We first extend the FDR procedure and develop a transformation that exploits complete or partial knowledge of either the observed distributions at each sensor or the ensemble (mixture) distribution across all sensors. We then show that this transformation applies to multi-dimensional observations, thus extending FDR to multi-dimensional settings. We also extend FDR theory to cases where distributions under both null and positive hypotheses are uncertain. We then propose a robust distributed algorithm to perform detection. We further demonstrate scalability to large SNETs by showing that the upper bound on the communication complexity scales linearly with the number of sensors that are in the vicinity of objects and is independent of the total number of sensors. Finally, we deal with situations where the sensing model may be uncertain and establish robustness of our techniques to such uncertainties.
Ermis Erhan B.
Saligrama Venkatesh
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