Collaborative Beamforming (CB) has been introduced in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) context as a long-distance and power-efficient communication scheme. One challenge for CB is the randomness of sensor node locations where different network realizations result in different CB beampatterns. First, we study the effect of sensor node spatial distribution on the CB beampattern. The characteristics of the CB beampattern are derived for circular Gaussian distributed sensor nodes and compared with the case of uniform distributed sensor nodes. It is shown that the mainlobe behavior of the CB beampattern is essentially deterministic. This suggests that the average beampattern characteristics are suitable for describing the mainlobe of a sample beampattern. However, the CB beampattern sidelobes are random and highly depends on the particular sensor node locations.
Second, we introduce the multi-link CB and address the problem of random sidelobes where high level sidelobes can cause unacceptable interference to unintended Base Stations or Access Points (BSs/APs). Centralized sidelobe control techniques are impractical for distributed sensor nodes because of the associated communication overhead for each sensor node. Therefore, we propose a node selection scheme as an alternative to the centralized sidelobe control which aims at minimizing the interference at unintended BSs/APs. Our algorithm is based on the use of the inherent randomness of the channels and a low feedback that approves/rejects tested random node combinations. The performance of the proposed algorithm is analyzed in terms of the average number of trials and the achievable interference suppression and transmission rate.
Finally, we study CB with power control aiming at prolonging the lifetime of a cluster of sensor nodes in the WSN. The energy available at different sensor nodes may not be the same since different sensor nodes may perform different tasks and not equally frequently. CB with power control can be used to balance the individual sensor nodes' lifetimes. Thus, we propose a distributed algorithm for CB with power control that is based on the Residual Energy Information (REI) at each sensor node while achieving the required average SNR at the BS/AP. The effectiveness of the proposed CB with power control is illustrated by simulations. / Communications
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1952 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Ahmed, Mohammed |
| Contributors | Vorobyov, Sergiy (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Vorobyov, Sergiy (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Affes, Sofiene (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), University of Quebec), Hooper, Peter (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences), Tellambura, Chinta (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Jing, Yindi (Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1422182 bytes, application/pdf |
| Relation | M. F. A. Ahmed and S. A. Vorobyov, “Collaborative beamforming for wireless sensor networks with Gaussian distributed sensor nodes,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 638-643, Feb. 2009. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4786421&tag=1, M.F.A. Ahmed and S.A. Vorobyov,“Sidelobe control in collaborative beamforming via node selection,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 12, Dec. 2010. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5580130 |
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