Silent Below the Break

Distributed Detection on a Daisy-Chained Sensor String That the Event May Sever

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions derives the exact fusion rule for a censoring sensor string wired in series down a borehole, where a silent node may be withholding an uninformative reading or may lie below a break in the cable caused by the event under detection. In simulation on a string of twenty-four nodes the classical censoring rule's error probability rises from 0.105 to 0.361 as severance becomes likely, while a rule that weighs the trailing run of silence as a whole stays below 0.11.

@misc{slop_vweh68,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {Silent Below the Break: Distributed Detection on a Daisy-Chained Sensor String That the Event May Sever},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.vweh68},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-silent-sensors-in-vweh68/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}