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In this method, each reconnaissance receiver is restricted to accessing adjacent nodes within an undirected graph for information transmission and local computation. The distributed Dempster\u2019s combination rule and the cautious conjunctive rule are implemented using weight functions and consensus algorithms. Furthermore, an innovative outlier detection algorithm is incorporated into the fusion process to enhance its robustness. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively improves the accuracy of radar signal sorting. When the sorting accuracy of a single reconnaissance receiver is equal to or higher than 60%, both fusion rules achieve a sorting accuracy of 100%. 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