Identifier

etd-07082007-222626

Degree

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

We present a new scheme of distributed detection in sensor networks using Sigma-Delta modulation. In the existing works local sensor nodes either quantize the observation or directly scale the analog observation and then transmit the processed information independently over wireless channels to a fusion center. In this thesis we exploit the advantages of integrating modulation as a local processor into sensor design and propose a novel mixing topology of parallel and serial configurations for distributed detection system, enabling each sensor to transmit binary information to the fusion center, while preserving the analog information through collaborative processing. We develop suboptimal fusion algorithms for the proposed system and provide both theoretical analysis and various simulation results to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme in both AWGN and fading channels in terms of the resulting detection error probability by comparison with the existing approaches.

Date

2007

Document Availability at the Time of Submission

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Committee Chair

Shuangqing Wei

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_theses.2738

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