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BUGS ON A BUDGET: DISTRIBUTED SENSING WITH COST FOR REPORTING AND NONREPORTING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2010
Abstract
We consider a simple model of sequential decisions made by a fusion agent that receives binary-passive reports from distributed sensors. The main result is an explicit formula for the probability of making a decision before a fixed budget is exhausted. These results depend on the relationship between a special ruin problem for a “lazy random walk” and a traditional biased walk.
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 525 - 534
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010
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