Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations

5	Fundamentals of Distributed Estimation Chee-Yee Chong, Kuo-Chu Chang and Shozo Mori

CONTENTS

5.1    Introduction

5.2    Distributed Estimation Architectures

5.2.1    Fusion Architecture Graph

5.2.1.1    Singly Connected Fusion Architectures

5.2.1.2    Multiply Connected Fusion Architectures

5.2.2    Information Graph

5.2.2.1    Singly Connected Information Graphs for Singly Connected Fusion Architectures

5.2.2.2    Multiply Connection Information Graphs for Hierarchical Fusion

5.2.2.3    Information Graph for Distributed Architectures

5.2.3    Information Communicated and Common Prior Knowledge

5.2.4    Selecting Appropriate Architectures

5.3    Bayesian Distributed Fusion Algorithm

5.3.1    Bayesian Distributed Estimation Problem and Solution ...