Abstract:Target detection is to determine whether the monitored target event occurs, and it is the first premise of monitoring applications based on wireless sensor networks. Due to the sensor nodes cooperate to perform the detection task, the decoupled and maximum throughput design approaches typically used in the communication networks cannot make the optimal detection performance. It is presented the cross layer design of integration of the physical layer, MAC layer and application layer to design a transmission control policy intergating channel state information, quality of information and residual energy information-aware, which coordinates communication between local sensors and the fusion center, in order to maximize the detection performance. Finally, a nonlinear constraint optimization problem for ALOHA and TDMA sensor networks was formulated and solved to get the optimal design variables. And also the detection performance gain was compared to the typical decoupled and maximum throughput design approaches.