Sidelobe control in collaborative beamforming via node selection

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6168-6180

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaborative beamforming; node selection; sidelobe control; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; AVERAGE NUMBERS; BEAM PATTERN; COLLABORATIVE BEAMFORMING; DATA-COMMUNICATION; DETERMINISTIC BEHAVIOR; FINITE NUMBER; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MULTI-LINK; NETWORK TRANSMISSION; NODE LOCATION; NODE SELECTION; NODE SELECTION ALGORITHMS; POWER EFFICIENT; RATE FEEDBACK; SIDE LOBES; SIDELOBE CONTROL; SIMULATION RESULT; THEORETICAL RESULT; TRANSMISSION RANGES; TRANSMISSION RATES; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78649266890     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2077631     Document Type: Article

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