Paper Info
Title
An energy efficient joint localization and synchronization solution for wireless sensor networks using unmanned aerial vehicle.
Abstract
Localization and synchronization are fundamental services for many applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), since it is often required to know the sensor nodes' position and global time to relate a given event detection to a specific location and time. However, the localization and synchronization tasks are often performed after the sensor nodes' deployment on the sensor field. Since manual configuration of sensor nodes is usually an impractical activity, it is necessary to rely on specific algorithms to solve both localization and clock synchronization problems of sensor nodes. With this in mind, in this work we propose a joint solution for the problem of 3D localization and time synchronization in WSNs using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A UAV equipped with GPS flies over the sensor field broadcasting its geographical position. Therefore, sensor nodes are able to estimate their geographical position and global time without the need of equipping them with a GPS device. Through simulation experiments, we show that our proposed joint solution reduces time synchronization and localization errors as well as energy consumption when compared to solutions found in the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11276-014-0802-2
Wireless Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Energy efficient,Wireless sensor networks,Unmanned aerial vehicle,Localization,Synchronization problems
Synchronization,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Global time,Wireless sensor network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
2
1022-0038
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.40
25
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leandro A. Villas142355.86
Daniel L. Guidoni220523.49
Guilherme Maia319917.67
Richard W. Pazzi415916.95
Jó Ueyama5171.79
Antonio Loureiro62406197.77