Title
Energy Efficient Collaborative Beamforming for Reducing Sidelobe in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Collaborative beamforming (CB) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) based on a virtual node antenna array (VNAA) can increase the transmission distance and enhance the energy efficiency of sensor nodes. However, a VNAA cannot be pre-designed like the conventional antenna arrays due to the randomly deployed sensor nodes, thereby causing a high sidelobe level (SLL) which increases the interferences. In this article, we formulate a hybrid discrete and continuous optimization problem (HDCOP) for reducing the maximum SLL. HDCOP requires to solve both the discrete and the continuous problems simultaneously, and we propose both centralized and consensus-based distributed CB strategies for solving HDCOP. For the centralized strategy, we convert HDCOP into two sub-optimization problems, and propose a discrete cuckoo search (CS) algorithm for the node location selection optimization and a continuous CS algorithm to optimize the excitation current weights of the selected nodes. For the distributed strategy, we propose a parallel distributed CS algorithm to solve the discrete and continuous parts of HDCOP simultaneously. Moreover, we propose two operating mechanisms based on these two algorithms. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategies for reducing the maximum SLL of CB in WSNs. Moreover, the proposed CB strategies have better performance in terms of the energy efficiency compared with other approaches such as the cross-entropy optimization-based method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TMC.2019.2955948
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Wireless sensor networks,collaborative beamforming,antenna arrays,sidelobe level,energy efficient
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1536-1233
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Geng Sun1199.77
Yanheng Liu222836.14
Zhaoyu Chen351.11
Aimin Wang481.50
Ying Zhang53811.41
Daxin Tian620432.49
Victor C. M. Leung79717759.02