Competency Demonstration Report: Cooperative MIMO Project Analysis

This report details a student's project on cooperative Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communications within wireless sensor networks (WSN). The project aimed to improve energy efficiency and network performance by developing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for cooperative MIMO systems. The student's work involved analyzing existing literature, developing mathematical models for error performance and timing error, and simulating the proposed protocol using MATLAB. The report highlights the student's responsibilities, which included developing the MAC protocol, creating mathematical models, and contributing to performance evaluation. The project's objectives were to maximize the lifetime of WSNs by reducing energy consumption, utilizing MIMO transmission methods, and assessing the competence of the proposed MAC protocol. The report also discusses identified issues, such as channel fading and software compatibility problems, along with proposed solutions. The project demonstrated a unique creativity by using the MAC protocol to support cooperative MIMO transmission over WSN. The analysis shows the student's understanding of telecommunication engineering principles and their application to practical network design challenges.