Effect of path loss on the distributed beamforming for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Sriploy, Pongnarin ; Uthansakul, Peerapong ; Uthansakul, Monthippa

Author_Institution

Sch. of Telecommun. Eng., Suranaree Univ. of Technol., NakhonRatchasima, Thailand

fYear

2013

fDate

15-17 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

From literatures, path loss effect has not been taken into account when analyzing beamforming performance of distributed or cooperative beamforming networks such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Therefore, this paper investigates into the mentioned effect on beamforming performance of WSNs through computer simulation. The obtained results indicate that the path loss occurring between the networks and destination extremely degrades beam pattern and beamforming gain.

Keywords

array signal processing; wireless sensor networks; WSN; beam pattern; beamforming gain; computer simulation; cooperative beamforming network; distributed beamforming; distributed beamforming network; path loss effect; wireless sensor networks; Ad hoc networks; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Arrays; Collaboration; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Beam pattern; Distributed beamforming; Free-Space Path loss; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Krabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0546-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTICon.2013.6559468

Filename

6559468