A modified DV-Hop localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks

Author

Liu, Kezhong ; Yan, Xinping ; Hu, Fuping

Author_Institution

Sch. of Navig., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

514

Abstract

Sensor localization is a necessary and key functionality for the deployment of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. This paper investigates on the range-free localization approaches for low hardware requirement. A modified DV-Hop localization algorithm is designed to reduce the localization error. The modified DV-Hop uses a novel average hop size estimate scheme, in which the local property of hop-size for a particular pair of beacon nodes is considered. Simulation results show that the modified DV-Hop algorithm outperforms the original DV-Hop algorithm, especially when the contribution of local hop-size is chosen reasonably.

Keywords

wireless sensor networks; average hop size estimate scheme; beacon nodes; hardware requirement; localization error; modified DV-Hop localization algorithm; range-free localization; sensor localization; wireless sensor networks; Acoustic sensors; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Intelligent sensors; Navigation; Programmable logic arrays; Routing protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless sensor networks; DV-Hop; Localization; Wireless Sensor Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems, 2009. ICIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4754-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4738-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICISYS.2009.5358126

Filename

5358126