AIDA

Distributed Beamforming in Sensor Networks

Vision

This project aims to create a new sensor network architecture, AIDA, that uses antenna arrays of the distributed sensor nodes to create directional radio waves that can reach order-of-magnitude farther than individual antennas of the sensor nodes. Such a distributed antenna array is created by aligning antennas of multiple sensor nodes and transmitting the same information simultaneously at different phases. Because of wave reinforcement and cancellation, the signals can be highly directional and reach much longer distances than that by each individual antenna. While the concept of distributed antenna arrays has been studied theoretically recently, applying such antenna arrays to wireless sensor networks has not been fully explored.

Funding

This project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under Grant CNS-0721873.

People

Faculty: Y. Charlie Hu, Byunghoo Jung, Yung-Hsiang Lu, and Dimitrios Peroulis
Graduate students: Che-Wei Chang, Jing (Jackie) Feng, Serkan Sayilir
Undergraduate Students: Jared Tyler Kuh

Publications

Energy Efficient Collaborative Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks.
- Jing Feng, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Byunghoo Jung, and Dimitrios Peroulis.
- In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 24-27, 2009.
Radiating Sensor Selection for Distributed Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks.
- Che-Wei Chang, Akshay Kothari, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Y. Charlie Hu.
- In Proceedings of MILCOM, San Diego, CA, November 2008.
Energy-Efficient MAC and Routing Design in Distributed Beamforming Sensor Networks (abstract).
- Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Syed Ali Raza Jafri, and Y. Charlie Hu.
- Poster, In 3rd ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2007) Student Workshop, New York, NY, December 10, 2007.
Serkan Sayilir and Byunghoo Jung, "Maximum likely hood phase frequency detector for collaborative beamforming," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp -, May 2010. (accepted)