Localization Techniques For Wireless Sensor Networks Research Articles

GAUSS-NEWTON MULTILATERATION LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM IN LARGE-SCALE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR IoT APPLICATIONS

The location information of sensor nodes plays an important role in critical applications like health monitoring, fire detection, and intruder detection. Installing global positioning system (GPS) modules with the sensor node hardware is not a cost-effective solution for knowing the location coordinates. This has lead to rigorous research in defining nascent localization techniques for wireless sensor networks. But, the existing localization techniques use more number of anchor nodes to compute the location coordinates of sensor nodes, and the network deployment becomes costly. This article presents a low complex, range-based localization algorithm called gauss-newton multilateration that uses received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values of the anchor nodes' signals received at the target nodes. The proposed algorithm uses only four static anchor nodes, which are deployed at the corners of the network terrain to locate the sensor nodes with localization accuracy of 90.21% and increased up to 98.59%. Based on the results obtained, the proposed algorithm provides higher localization accuracy, and it is well suited for locating sensor nodes with high accuracy in large scale wireless sensor networks.

A State-of-the-Art Survey on Multidimensional Scaling-Based Localization Techniques

Current and future wireless applications strongly rely on precise real-time localization. A number of applications, such as smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT), medical services, automotive industry, underwater exploration, public safety, and military systems require reliable and accurate localization techniques. Generally, the most popular localization/positioning system is the global positioning system (GPS). GPS works well for outdoor environments but fails in indoor and harsh environments. Therefore, a number of other wireless local localization techniques are developed based on terrestrial wireless networks, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and wireless local area networks (WLANs). Also, there exist localization techniques which fuse two or more technologies to find out the location of the user, also called signal of opportunity-based localization. Most of the localization techniques require ranging measurements, such as time of arrival (ToA), time difference of arrival (TDoA), direction of arrival (DoA), and received signal strength (RSS). There are also range-free localization techniques which consider the proximity information and do not require the actual ranging measurements. Dimensionality reduction techniques are famous among the range free localization schemes. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is one of the dimensionality reduction technique which has been used extensively in the recent past for wireless networks localization. In this paper, a comprehensive survey is presented for MDS and MDS-based localization techniques in WSNs, IoT, cognitive radio networks, and 5G networks.

A survey on mobile anchor assisted localization techniques in wireless sensor networks

Identifying locations of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is significant for both network operations and most application level tasks. Although, geographical positioning system (GPS) based localization schemes are used for determining node locations but the cost of GPS devices and non-availability of GPS signals in indoor environments prevent their use in large scale WSNs. A substantial amount of research work exist that intend at obtaining precise and relative spatial locations of sensor nodes without requiring large amount of specialized hardware. Mobile anchor assisted localization is one typical approach that significantly reduces the implementation cost by using limited number of mobile anchors. In this survey, we present key issues and inherent challenges faced by the mobile anchor assisted localization techniques in WSNs. We take a closer look at the algorithmic approaches of various important fine-grained mobile anchor assisted localization techniques applicable in WSNs. In addition, we highlight the error refinement mechanisms adopted by the state-of-the-art works associated with their approaches. Well known mobile anchor trajectories presented in existing works are also reviewed. Finally, open research issues are discussed for future research scope in this field.

Horizontal and Vertical Zone Based Location Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks

Localization is an important feature in Wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Accuracy in node localization with proper synchronization and required localization of sensor nodes, save node energy and enhance the performance of communication network protocols. In this paper we propose distributed localization algorithms and assume position known Cluster Head (CH) and position unknown three beacon nodes for each cluster. Using trilateration technique beacon nodes are located. Additional beacon node is added to confirm the location of beacon nodes and maintain location accuracy. These position localized beacon nodes help to locate other sensor nodes. The proposed two distributed zone based localization algorithms are (i) Horizontal Location Position System (H-LPS), where cluster is divided into Horizontal Zones (HZs) and beacon nodes locate in horizontal direction and (ii) Vertical Location Position System (V-LPS), where cluster is divided into Vertical Zones (VZs) and beacon nodes locate in vertical direction. The main advantage of zone based localization is nodes belonging to a bounded zone (horizontal or vertical) are localized and participate in WSN computing. If a bounded zone is eliminated during localization, then nodes do not participate in localization and thus save WSN computing. We provide zone based simulations for H-LPS and V-LPS in comparison with existing localization algorithms like Ad hoc Positioning System (APS), Recursive Positioning Estimation (RPE) and Directed Positioning Estimation (DPE). Performance evaluation of H-LPS and V-LPS illustrate that for zone based localization, H-LPS and V-LPS perform better that existing localization techniques. Bounded zone performance is optimal for H-LPS and V-LPS compared to existing localization techniques in WSN.