Consultation scheme based on serial distributed detection system

In this paper, we consider a serial distributed detection system of two sensors. Contrary to the known optimal serial decision fusion, we assume that two way conditional communication is allowed in serial fashion between the sensors. The performance of the proposed consulting scheme is shown to be identical to that of the optimal serial scheme when both systems operate at the same thresholds. It should be emphasized that the proposed consulting scheme exhibits the advantage of conditional nonrandom consultation between the sensors. Therefore, it has a higher survivability than that of the serial scheme. Performance results are given.