Optimal power allocation for active and passive localization

Power resource allocation is crucial for localization since it affects not only the conventionally recognized lifetime, throughput, and covertness, but also localization efficiency of the network. In this paper, we present an optimization framework for range-based localization to improve the power efficiency and localization accuracy. Our framework unifies the analysis for active and passive localization through the examples of wireless network localization (WNL) and multiple radar localization (MRL). In particular, we determine the functional properties of localization accuracy metric, and based on those properties we formulate the power allocation problem as conic programs. Moreover, we propose robust counterparts that retain the conic structures for power allocation in the presence of parameter uncertainty. Our simulation results validate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed methods.