Robust localization in wireless sensor networks

Rongfei Fan; Hai Jiang; Shaohua Wu; Naitong Zhang

doi:10.1109/ICC.2008.790

Robust localization in wireless sensor networks

Rongfei Fan^*, Hai Jiang, Shaohua Wu, Naitong Zhang

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Abstract

Localization is essential for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It is to determine the positions of sensor nodes based on incomplete mutual distance measurements. In this paper, to measure the accuracy of localization algorithms, a ranging error model for time of arrival (TOA) estimation is given, and the Cramer-Rao Bound (CRB) for the model is derived. Then an algorithm is proposed to deal with the case where 1) ranging error accumulation exists, and 2) some anchor nodes broadcast inaccurate/wrong location information. Specifically, we first present a ranging error-tolerable topology reconstruction method without knowledge of anchor node locations. Then we propose a method to detect anchor nodes that have inaccurate/wrong position information. Simulations demonstrate the improvement of our algorithm compared to others.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICC 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Proceedings
Pages	4209-4213
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2008.790
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2008 - Beijing, China Duration: 19 May 2008 → 23 May 2008

Publication series

Name	IEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)	0536-1486

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2008
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	19/05/08 → 23/05/08

Keywords

Cramer-rao bound
Localization
Topology reconstruction
Wireless sensor networks

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