A new energy-efficient MIMO-sensor network architecture M-SENMA

Author

Xiao, Liang ; Xiao, Ming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

2941

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new large-scale low power sensor network architecture called MIMO-sensor networks with mobile agents (M-SENMAs), which select several neighboring sensor nodes to transmit information cooperatively and equip the mobile agents (MAs) with multiple receive-antennas. The M-SENMA system enables various space-time processing techniques and advanced detection algorithms. A comparison of M-SENMA with the flat MIMO sensor network architecture and sensor networks with mobile agents (SENMA) shows a substantial gain in the energy efficiency. Its upper and lower energy bounds under various antenna schemes and MA heights are discussed, which would help the future system design for sensor networks.

Keywords

MIMO systems; Rayleigh channels; cooperative systems; mobile radio; space-time adaptive processing; wireless sensor networks; M-SENMA; MIMO-sensor network architecture; V-BLAST; aerial vehicle mobile agents; detection algorithms; energy-efficiency; flat Raleigh fading channel; ground vehicle mobile agents; large-scale low power sensor network; mobile agents; multiple receive antennas; neighboring sensor node cooperative information transmission; space-time processing; Computer architecture; Energy efficiency; Large-scale systems; MIMO; Mobile agents; Potential energy; Receiving antennas; Sensor systems; Transmitting antennas; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8521-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2004.1400599

Filename

1400599