\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 06087842} \itemau{Sigg, Stephan; Beigl, Michael} \itemti{An adaptive protocol for distributed beamforming.} \itemso{Luttenberger, Norbert (ed.) et al., 17th GI/ITG conference on communication in distributed systems (KiVS 2011). Proceedings of the conference, March 8--11, 2011, Kiel, Germany. Wadern: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz Zentrum f\"ur Informatik (ISBN 978-3-939897-27-9). OASIcs -- OpenAccess Series in Informatics 17, 38-48, electronic only (2011).} \itemab Summary: We study distributed adaptive beamforming in networks of wireless nodes. In particular, we observe that for the synchronisation of carrier phases, distinct algorithmic configurations are optimal in various environmental settings and propose a protocol that utilises organic computing principles to find optimum parameters. Furthermore, we study the impact of different modulation schemes on the bit error rate of a signal sequence transmitted collaboratively by distributed devices via adaptive beamforming. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{distributed beamforming; adaptive synchronisation protocol} \itemli{doi:10.4230/OASIcs.KiVS.2011.38} \end