Abstract
Maximum achievable rates of cooperative sensors communicating
with a mobile access point are considered for the case when some
sensors may be misinformed with erroneous messages. Depending
on the presence of polling channels and/or energy constraints, three
system configurations are analyzed and their maximum achievable
rates derived. It is shown that, when there is a polling channel and
no energy constraint, the maximum achievable rate is the same as
that when there are no misinformed sensors. In the absence of polling
channels, however, there is a loss of achievable rate as a function
of the probability that a sensor is misinformed. Results are extended
to multiple simultaneous transmissions and in the presence of
channel fading.