Optimisation of Radiation Beam in Linear Nodes Array of Wireless Sensor Network for Improved Performance
This chapter presents an intelligent method of optimising the radiation beam of wireless sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Each node has the feature of a monopole antenna. The optimisation involves selection of nodes to be organised as close as possible to a uniform linear array (ULA) in order to minimise the position errors, which will improve the radiation beam reconfiguring performance. Instead of utilising random beamforming, which needs a large number of sensor nodes to interact with each other and form a narrow radiation beam, the developed optimisation algorithm is emphasized to only a selected number of sensor nodes which can construct a linear array. Thus, the method utilises radiation beam reconfiguration technique to intelligently establish a communication link in a WSN.