We describe the development of a novel generic approach to optical-fiber sensing based on metal-enhanced fluorescence. Thin metals layers, metal colloids, and engineered nanoscale metallic structures in close proximity to fluorophores are well known to increase the efficiency of fluorescence emission, such as increased rates of excitation, increased fluorescence quantum yields, decreased fluorescence lifetimes with a corresponding increase in photostability, and drastically increased rates of multi-photon excitation. This work combines metal-enhanced fluorescence effects (also termed radiative decay engineering) and our unique optical fiber sensor architecture for distributed fiber sensing, which is based on crossed optical fibers and which improves the spatial resolution by several orders of magnitude. Spatially resolved readout is achieved using Optical Time of Flight Detection, where short laser pulses coupled into the fiber excite the sensors molecules in a sensor region located in the fiber cladding. Fluorescence pulses generated subsequently by the fluorosensors are captured by a second fiber placed at right angle to the first one and guided to the detector. Extending this idea, we can build arrays consisting of many such fiber-fiber junctions, each of which constitutes a sensor region. To examine the feasibility of using metal-enhancement effects in our arrays, a thin silver film was deposited by vacuum evaporation onto the core of one of the optical fibers. Subsequently, SiO2 was deposited as an optically transparent spacer layer between the metal and the fluorosensor dichlorotris (1,10-phenanthroline) ruthenium(II), which was used due to favorable emission characteristics and due to its oxygen sensing function.