Fully wireless implementation of distributed beamforming on a software-defined radio platform

IPSN'12 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 305-315

  Rahman, Muhammad M ^a   Baidoo Williams, Henry E ^a   Mudumbai, Raghuraman ^a   Dasgupta, Soura ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative communication; Distributed beamforming; Software defined radio

Indexed keywords

CLOCK DISTRIBUTION; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; DIGITAL BASEBAND; DISTRIBUTED BEAMFORMING; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE; HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY; OR CHANNELS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RF SIGNAL; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; VIRTUAL ANTENNA ARRAYS; WIRED CHANNEL;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; RADIO RECEIVERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOFTWARE RADIO; TRANSMISSIONS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84860534255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2185677.2185745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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