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Table 5 Estimated circuit processing power at SNR = 24 dB

From: An energy-efficient communication system using joint beamforming in multi-hop health monitoring sensor networks

 

Direct

Only multi-hop

Multi-hop

 

transmission

(mW)

and joint

 

(mW)

 

beamforming

   

(mW)

Beacon detection

0.0665

0.0665

0.0665

OFDM symbol

0

0.0437

0.1748

boundary detection

 

OFDMA User

0

0.5641

2.1760

segment detection

 

JWLS estimation

0

0.3324

1.3298

Channel estimation

0

0.2919

4.6925

Beamforming

0

0

0.0134

vector calculation

 

Total circuit

0.0665

1.2987

8.4529

processing power

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