Title
Area Concentric Beacons Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Localization is one of the fundamental problems in many wireless sensor networks applications. They require sensor nodes to obtain their absolute or relative geographical position. Although many localization algorithms have been proposed recently, most of them require the node to equip special range-determining or angel-determining hardware in order to obtain the position related information. In this paper, we propose a concentric beacons localization algorithm which is a range-free approach. Four anchors are set in the four corners of the square target region, and emit localizing beacons at different power levels, with the information of their position and the estimated range of the beacon. The nodes in this region receive these beacons and compute their positions correspondingly. In region of different scale, we propose two alternative schemes. The One for small scale has lower calculation complexity, and the other has better stability on large scale applications. Simulation results show the estimation error is less than 0.4 times the beacon interval.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1587/transfun.E92.A.2151
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
localization,concentric,positioning,estimation theory,position estimation,beacons,range-free approach,wireless sensor networks,area concentric beacon localization algorithm,wireless sensor network
Beacon,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Concentric,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Estimation theory,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E92-A
8
17451337
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-1997-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ying Zhou182.14
Depeng Jin22177154.29
Li Su397762.53
Lieguang Zeng475256.75