“Performance Evaluation & Application of Smart Antenna in Sensor Networks”

This research work provides a method for forming a communications link of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) by enabling each WSN to act as a smart antenna. Each WSN is simulated as a set of randomly placed sensor nodes within a planar area. The proposed method involves a searching WSN, a receiving WSN and a link budget for establishing the link. The searching WSN has the task of transmitting a search beam in order to find adjacent WSNs. We also demonstrate that for a given required gain level we can spatially thin the array without significant loss of gain or the effects of grating lobes. The receiving WSN uses a spread spectrum based space division multiple access (SDMA) receiver. This receiver is simulated to determine the direction of arrival from the searching WSN and to extract the location information from the searching WSN’s signal with additive white Gaussian noise.