Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations

8	Toward a Theoretical Foundation for Distributed Fusion Ronald Mahler

CONTENTS

8.1    Introduction

8.2    Single-Target Distributed Fusion: Review

8.2.1    Single-Target Bayes Filter

8.2.2    T²F with Independent Sources

8.2.3    T²F with Known Double-Counting

8.2.4    Covariance Intersection

8.2.5    Exponential Mixture Fusion

8.3    Finite-Set Statistics: Review

8.3.1    Multitarget Recursive Bayes Filter

8.3.2    Multitarget Calculus

8.3.3    PHD Filter

8.3.4    CPHD Filter

8.3.5    Significant Recent Developments

8.4    General Multitarget Distributed Fusion

8.4.1    Multitarget T²F of Independent Sources

8.4.2    Multitarget T²F with Known Double-Counting

8.4.3    Multitarget XM Fusion

8.5    CPHD/PHD Filter Distributed Fusion

8.5.1    CPHD ...