Nelder Mead with Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm for Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Node localization in wireless sensor network (WSN) becomes essential to calculate the coordinate points of the unknown nodes with the use of known or anchor nodes. The efficiency of the WSN has significant impact on localization accuracy. Node localization can be considered as an optimization problem and bioinspired algorithms finds useful to solve it. This paper introduces a novel Nelder Mead with Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (NMGOA) for node localization in WSN. The Nelder-Mead simplex search method is employed to improve the effectiveness of GOA because of its capability of faster convergence. At the beginning, the nodes in WSN are arbitrarily placed in the target area and then nodes are initialized. Afterwards, the node executes the NMGOA technique for estimating the location of the unknown nodes and become localized nodes. In the subsequent round, the localized nodes will be included to the collection of anchor nodes to perform the localization process. The effectiveness of the NMGOA model is validated using a series of experiments and results indicated that the NMGOA model has achieved superior results over the compared methods.