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Title: Joint Sensor and Relay Power Control in Tracking Gaussian Mixture Targets by Wireless Sensor Networks
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Award ID(s):
1702808
Publication Date:
NSF-PAR ID:
10054664
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Volume:
66
Issue:
2
Page Range or eLocation-ID:
492 to 506
ISSN:
1053-587X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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