Channel Estimated Cooperative MIMO in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract Energy efficient data transfer is the key factor for the design of energy efficient wireless sensor network (WSN). In this paper, an energy efficient cooperative MIMO (C-MIMO) technique is proposed in the WSN where fixed constellation size is considered in transmitting both the local and long-haul communication. A selection criterion is used based on the channel conditions where a selected number of sensors in a cluster is used to form a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) structure wirelessly connected with multiple antennas of a data gathering node (DGN). The selected approach is tested on the correlated data scenario. Experimental results show that the selected C-MIMO structure outperforms the unselected C-MIMO in terms of total energy consumption and they show energy efficient performance over existing one when they are compared with SISO structure. Energy models are evaluated for this scenario while energy consumption and efficiency are compared for different combination of cluster sizes and selected number of sensors. Comparisons are shown for different fixed number of constellation sizes. The effect of correlation coefficient and intersensor distance are analyzed. Later, a delay analysis is shown considering optimal constellation size.

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