Lifetime Improvement in Wireless Sensor Networks via Collaborative Beamforming and Cooperative Transmission

dc.creatorHan, Zhu
dc.creatorPoor, H. Vincent
dc.date2007-04-25
dc.date2007-04-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:15:59Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:15:59Z
dc.descriptionCollaborative beamforming (CB) and cooperative transmission (CT) have recently emerged as communication techniques that can make effective use of collaborative/cooperative nodes to create a virtual multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) system. Extending the lifetime of networks composed of battery-operated nodes is a key issue in the design and operation of wireless sensor networks. This paper considers the effects on network lifetime of allowing closely located nodes to use CB/CT to reduce the load or even to avoid packet-forwarding requests to nodes that have critical battery life. First, the effectiveness of CB/CT in improving the signal strength at a faraway destination using energy in nearby nodes is studied. Then, the performance improvement obtained by this technique is analyzed for a special 2D disk case. Further, for general networks in which information-generation rates are fixed, a new routing problem is formulated as a linear programming problem, while for other general networks, the cost for routing is dynamically adjusted according to the amount of energy remaining and the effectiveness of CB/CT. From the analysis and the simulation results, it is seen that the proposed method can reduce the payloads of energy-depleting nodes by about 90% in the special case network considered and improve the lifetimes of general networks by about 10%, compared with existing techniques.
dc.descriptionInvited paper to appear in the IEE Proceedings: Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, Special Issue on Antenna Systems and Propagation for Future Wireless Communications
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3391
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3391
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/133630
dc.subjectInformation Theory
dc.titleLifetime Improvement in Wireless Sensor Networks via Collaborative Beamforming and Cooperative Transmission
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