Title
Node Localization with AoA Assistance in Multi-Hop Underwater Sensor Networks
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel node localization method in sparse underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) where the locations of only a small number of anchor nodes are available. The proposed method estimates the Euclidean distances from anchor nodes to multi-hop sensor nodes with the help of angle of arrival (AoA) measurements in the local coordinate systems of the routing nodes. A new distance estimation method is proposed for sensor nodes with greater-than-two-hops to an anchor node by accurately estimating the rotation matrix between the routing nodes. By forwarding distances hop-by-hop through the network, the sensor nodes are able to obtain distance estimates to more than four or five anchor nodes. Then the location of the sensor node is solved by a weighted Least Squares method. This paper develops a practical table of weights for different number of hops and AoA estimation errors. Simulation results show that the proposed localization method outperforms the existing multi-hop localization algorithms, such as DV-hop, DV-distance, Euclidean, and Cosine-law methods, in terms of distance estimation and location estimation, even if the AoA measurement error is large. Meanwhile, the proposed method maintains almost the same high localization coverage as the existing methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.adhoc.2018.05.005
Ad Hoc Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Localization,Multi-hop,Underwater wireless sensor networks,Angle of arrival (AoA)
Coordinate system,Sensor node,Least squares,Rotation matrix,Computer science,Direction of arrival,Algorithm,Angle of arrival,Euclidean geometry,Observational error,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78
C
1570-8705
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huai Huang130.74
Yahong Rosa Zheng288576.15