Abstract
We consider the problem of distributed detection involving multiple sensor nodes to jointly detect the presence of an unknown signal. To circumvent power/bandwidth constraints, a multilevel quantizer is employed in each sensor to quantize the original observation. The quantized data are transmitted through distortion channels to a fusion center where a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) detector is employed to perform a global decision. We propose a quantizer design approach by maximizing the Fisher information with respect to the quantization thresholds. Numerical results demonstrate that with 2- or 3-bit quantization, the GLRT detector can provide detection performance very close to that of the unquantized GLRT detector which uses the original observations without quantization.
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