Sensing Method for Two-Target Detection in Time-Constrained Vector Poisson Channel

It is an experimental design problem in which there are two Poisson sources with possible and known rates, one counter. Through a switch, the counter can observe individually or counts be combined so that observes sum of two. The sensor scheduling to determine optimal proportion available time allocated toward individual joint sensing, under total constraint. Two different metrics used for optimization: mutual information between observed counts, probability detection associated source problem. Our results, primarily computational, indicate similar but not identical results cost functions.