New Advances in Beam-Forming for Sensor Networks
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 236
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Interests: phased antenna arrays; feeding networks; microsystems; RF devices
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Interests: RF MEMS and microsystems; CORPS systems; phased antenna arrays
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Interests: computational electromagnetics; phased antenna arrays; RF MEMS
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue provides an international forum for researchers working in beam-forming systems to disseminate new ideas and recent advances for sensor networks, simulations, and applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Distributed beamforming;
- Collaborative beamforming;
- Securing and greening;
- Passive networks: Blass, Nolen, and Butler matrixes;
- Rotman lenses;
- Coherently radiating periodic structures;
- Photonics beam-forming networks;
- BFN for focusing systems, lenses, and reflectors;
- Reflectarrays transmitarrays;
- Dielectric waveguides, wide-band and multi-band feeds, integrated feeds and receivers, etc.;
- Next-generation beamforming.
Sensors are used where the human approach is limited. Here, special beam forming can help develop new applications based on sensor networks. The applications of these systems are highly linked with the current needs of communication, and papers on the following applications are welcomed: communication systems based on smart antennas and MIMO; broadband high-data-rate indoor (smart home, gigabit offices) and outdoor wireless communication systems; Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), namely short-range/long-range/multi-function automotive radars, road traffic and transport telematics for communications between vehicles as well as between vehicles and infrastructures; satellite communications systems for mobile and fixed satellite services (consumer and professional uses, communications with moving platforms like high-speed trains, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), etc.); communication with high-altitude platforms (HAPs); passive and active security and surveillance systems in public areas (airports, stations, etc.); active and passive RF instruments for remote sensing and earth observation (e.g., real aperture and synthetic radars, radiometers, etc..); electronic surveillance and countermeasure systems); ultra-wide-band systems, among others.
These and other applications could take advantage of the beamforming methodologies for sensor networks proposed here.
Dr. Marco A. Panduro
Prof. Dr. Carlos Bocio
Dr. Alberto Reyna Maldonado
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- beam forming
- sensor networks
- distributed beamforming
- collaborative beamforming
- smart antennas
- MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output)
- wireless communication systems
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