Distributed Detection System Design Local sensors Fusion center D ata Local sensor i fu center Consider binary quantizers at the local sensors Requires the design of local detectors and the fusion rule jointly according to some optimization criterion NP-hard in generalLocal Sensors Fusion Center Data fusion center u1 u2 uN ... Local Sensor i u0 yi ui • Consider binary quantizers at the local sensors. • Requires the design of local detectors and the fusion rule jointly according to some optimization criterion. • NP-hard, in general