Performance of Smart Antennas in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Smart Antennas provide angle-of-arrival information, which can be used for localization and efficient routing of information in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The method of designing a communications link between different nodes of a Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) by electronically steering the beam using smart antenna is presented. A brief design details and beam pattern measurements of a prototype smart antenna array operating in 2. 4 GHz band is
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تاریخ انتشار 2013