A Weighted DV-Hop Localization Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Li, Jian ; Zhang, Jianmin ; Xiande, Liu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Henan Inst. of Eng., Zhengzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

25-27 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

269

Lastpage

272

Abstract

Localization is an important problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), since location information is widely requested in various location-dependent applications. As one of the range-free localization algorithm DV-Hop, a well known localization algorithm, can be simply implement in real WSNs. To improve the accuracy of localization, this paper proposes an improved DV-Hop algorithm. The proposed algorithm is derived from DV-Hop algorithm, and uses weight of anchors to improve localization accuracy without needing no additional hardware device. Simulation results show that the improved DV-Hop algorithm can provide more accurate location estimation than the DV-Hop algorithm.

Keywords

radio direction-finding; wireless sensor networks; DV-Hop algorithm; weighted DV-Hop localization scheme; wireless sensor networks; Application software; Computer networks; Computer science; Embedded computing; Hardware; Optoelectronic and photonic sensors; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; DV-Hop; node localization; sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable Computing and Communications; Eighth International Conference on Embedded Computing, 2009. SCALCOM-EMBEDDEDCOM'09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3825-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EmbeddedCom-ScalCom.2009.55

Filename

5341603