Collaborative beamforming for wireless sensor networks with Gaussian distributed sensor nodes

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 638-643

  Ahmed, Mohammed F A ^a   Vorobyov, Sergiy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ad hoc networks; Antennas and propagation; Resource allocation and interference management; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NETWORK MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRELLIS CODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION; BEAM PATTERNS; BEAM WIDTHS; COLLABORATIVE BEAMFORMING; GAUSSIAN; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTED; GAUSSIAN PDF; NODE DEPLOYMENTS; NODE LOCATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RANDOM ARRAYS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; SIDE LOBE LEVELS; SIDE LOBES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSMISSION RANGES;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 61349130189     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.071339     Document Type: Article

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