Effect of path loss on the distributed beamforming for Wireless Sensor Networks

From literatures, path loss effect has not been taken into account when analyzing beamforming performance of distributed or cooperative beamforming networks such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Therefore, this paper investigates into the mentioned effect on beamforming performance of WSNs through computer simulation. The obtained results indicate that the path loss occurring between the networks and destination extremely degrades beam pattern and beamforming gain.