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The emergence of wireless sensor networks presents the need of sensor<br />

validation <strong>and</strong> fusion <strong>for</strong> extracting pertinent in<strong>for</strong>mation from massively deployed yet<br />

disturbance-prone sensor nodes. Durrant-Whyte et al. extended the decentralized<br />

Kalman filter <strong>for</strong> sensor fusion derived in [74] so that sensor fusion can be per<strong>for</strong>med<br />

locally on each sensor node without a fully connected network topology [81]. Yuan et<br />

al. discussed the trade-off between fusing large amounts of sensor data <strong>and</strong> the incurred<br />

latency when data are propagated towards the sink, <strong>and</strong> proposed a multi-level fusion<br />

synchronization protocol [82]. The protocol synchronized the fusion processes of the<br />

nodes at different levels in the data propagation tree so that maximum numbers of<br />

sensor data (or fused data) can get fused along the way towards the sink while<br />

minimizing the overall latency. Kumar et al. developed an architectural framework <strong>for</strong><br />

distributed data fusion called DFuse, which consists of a data fusion application<br />

programming interface (API) <strong>and</strong> a distributed algorithm <strong>for</strong> energy-aware role<br />

assignment [83]. DFuse was implemented <strong>and</strong> evaluated on a network of personal<br />

digital assistant (PDA) with wireless capabilities; however, it can not yet be deployed to<br />

the more resource-limited wireless mote plat<strong>for</strong>ms. Jiang et al. developed a fusion<br />

algorithm based on a likelihood ratio-based test (LRT) scheme <strong>for</strong> fusing binary<br />

decisions made locally by each sensor node <strong>and</strong> transmitted through a fading (noisy)<br />

channel [84]. Various models of fading channels were investigated <strong>and</strong> the optimal LRT<br />

was derived under each scenario <strong>for</strong> data fusion.<br />

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