The invention discloses a virtual
MIMO power distribution transmission proposal based on a
wireless sensor network, comprising the following steps: firstly, nodes which are required to transmit information in a cluster respectively transmit RTX packets to convergent nodes in the
wireless sensor network; secondly, the convergent nodes estimate
channel impulse response of a link according to a RTS packet which is transmitted by each node; thirdly, optimized transmission power of each node is calculated by utilization of
channel impulse response information, under the condition that
total transmission power is certain, and an optimum power distribution
algorithm based on a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker(KKT) condition and an suboptimum power distribution
algorithm based on
signal to interference and
noise ratio (SINR) are adopted; fourthly, optimized transmission power information is added into CTS packets and then transmitted to the entire cluster by means of broadcast, and an idle
MIMO channel is established; fifthly, after the transmission nodes in the cluster receive the CTS packets, the transmission nodes transmit signals simultaneously according to the optimized transmission power; sixthly, after the convergent nodes receive the signals which are transmitted by a plurality of nodes, decoding of each layer of signals is performed by adoption of a layer detection
algorithm and through combination of the transmission power of each node; seventhly,
wireless sensor network applications like target tracking and positioning and so on are performed according to
information integration of each node. The invention is suitable for application in the
wireless sensor network.