Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of spatially distributed autonomous sensor devices, named motes. These motes have their own power supply, processing unit, sensors and wireless communications However with many constraints, such as limited energy, bandwidth and computational capabilities....
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| author | Santiago Felici-Castell Enrique A. Navarro Juan J. Pérez-Solano Jaume Segura-García Miguel García-Pineda |
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| description | Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of spatially distributed autonomous sensor devices, named motes. These motes have their own power supply, processing unit, sensors and wireless communications However with many constraints, such as limited energy, bandwidth and computational capabilities. In these networks, at least one mote called a sink, acts as a gateway to connect with other networks. These sensor networks run monitoring applications and then the data gathered by these motes needs to be retrieved by the sink. When this sink is located in the far field, there have been many proposals in the literature based on Collaborative Beamforming (CB), also known as Distributed or Cooperative Beamforming, for these long range communications to reach the sink. In this paper, we conduct a thorough study of the related work and analyze the requirements to do CB. In order to implement these communications in real scenarios, we will consider if these requirements and the assumptions made are feasible from the point of view of commercial motes and their constraints. In addition, we will go a step further and will consider different alternatives, by relaxing these requirements, trying to find feasible assumptions to carry out these types of communications with commercial motes. This research considers the nonavailability of a central clock that synchronizes all motes in the WSN, and all motes have identical hardware. This is a feasibility study to do CB on WSN, using a simulated scenario with randomized delays obtained from experimental data from commercial motes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41887244b2c34d61b0467392cea1b6672022-12-22T04:23:21ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202017-01-0117223710.3390/s17020237s17020237Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor NetworksSantiago Felici-Castell0Enrique A. Navarro1Juan J. Pérez-Solano2Jaume Segura-García3Miguel García-Pineda4Departament de Informàtica, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Universitat de València, Avd. de la Universidad S/N, 46100 Burjassot, SpainDepartament de Informàtica, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Universitat de València, Avd. de la Universidad S/N, 46100 Burjassot, SpainDepartament de Informàtica, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Universitat de València, Avd. de la Universidad S/N, 46100 Burjassot, SpainDepartament de Informàtica, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Universitat de València, Avd. de la Universidad S/N, 46100 Burjassot, SpainDepartament de Informàtica, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Universitat de València, Avd. de la Universidad S/N, 46100 Burjassot, SpainWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of spatially distributed autonomous sensor devices, named motes. These motes have their own power supply, processing unit, sensors and wireless communications However with many constraints, such as limited energy, bandwidth and computational capabilities. In these networks, at least one mote called a sink, acts as a gateway to connect with other networks. These sensor networks run monitoring applications and then the data gathered by these motes needs to be retrieved by the sink. When this sink is located in the far field, there have been many proposals in the literature based on Collaborative Beamforming (CB), also known as Distributed or Cooperative Beamforming, for these long range communications to reach the sink. In this paper, we conduct a thorough study of the related work and analyze the requirements to do CB. In order to implement these communications in real scenarios, we will consider if these requirements and the assumptions made are feasible from the point of view of commercial motes and their constraints. In addition, we will go a step further and will consider different alternatives, by relaxing these requirements, trying to find feasible assumptions to carry out these types of communications with commercial motes. This research considers the nonavailability of a central clock that synchronizes all motes in the WSN, and all motes have identical hardware. This is a feasibility study to do CB on WSN, using a simulated scenario with randomized delays obtained from experimental data from commercial motes.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/2/237wireless sensor networkscollaborative beamformingdistributed beamformingcooperative beamforming |
| spellingShingle | Santiago Felici-Castell Enrique A. Navarro Juan J. Pérez-Solano Jaume Segura-García Miguel García-Pineda Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor Networks Sensors wireless sensor networks collaborative beamforming distributed beamforming cooperative beamforming |
| title | Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_full | Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_fullStr | Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_short | Practical Considerations in the Implementation of Collaborative Beamforming on Wireless Sensor Networks |
| title_sort | practical considerations in the implementation of collaborative beamforming on wireless sensor networks |
| topic | wireless sensor networks collaborative beamforming distributed beamforming cooperative beamforming |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/2/237 |
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