Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations

14	Nonmyopic Sensor Management Viswanath Avasarala and Tracy Mullen

CONTENTS

14.1  Introduction

14.2  Stochastic Dynamic Programming

14.3  Market-Oriented Programming

14.4  Performance Evaluation Using a Simulation Test Bed

14.4.1  Simulation Platform

14.5  Conclusion

References

14.1  INTRODUCTION

Sensor management which may be defined as “a process, which seeks to manage or coordinate the use of sensing resources in a manner that improves the process of data fusion and ultimately that of perception, synergistically” (Manyika and Whyte 1994). The recent advances in sensor and communication technologies have led to a proliferation of sensor network applications (Balazinska et al. 2007, Hall and McMullen 2004). Traditional sensor management ...