“…For conditionally dependent observations, the optimal fusion rules become intractable; they do not reduce to likelihood ratio tests. Recently, distributed detection algorithms have also been investigated under several communication constraints (Mirjalily et al, 2003;Varaee et al, 2009;Chen et al, 2004;Aldosari and Moura, 2005;Fabeck and Mathar, 2009;Quan et al, 2008Quan et al, , 2009). All the aforementioned algorithms focus on In this paper, under the background of underwater distributed detection using multiple sensors in the deep sea, a new united detection fusion and communication strategy is proposed.…”