Collaborative null-steering beamforming for uniformly distributed wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1889-1903

  Zarifi, Keyvan ^a,b   Affes, Sofiène ^a   Ghrayeb, Ali ^b  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beampattern; Collaborative beamforming; Null steering beamforming; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTANCE; BEAM FORMERS; BEAM PATTERN; COLLABORATIVE BEAMFORMING; DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; NULL-STEERING BEAMFORMING; OPTIMAL DIRECTION; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SIDE LOBES; WIRELESS SENSOR;

SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 77954938971     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2036476     Document Type: Article

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