An analysis of error inducing parameters in multihop sensor node localization

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 567-577

  Savvides, Andreas ^b,f,g   Garber, Wendy L ^c,h   Moses, Randolph L ^a,d,h   Srivastava, Man B ^a,e,i  

^a IEEE

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Ohio State University   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Embedded Networks and Applications Lab (ENALAB)   (United States)

^h Tau Beta Pi ^*  (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cram Rao bounds; Multihop node localization; Position estimation; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CRAMÉ RAO BOUNDS; MULTIHOP NODE LOCALIZATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSORS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 28244462403     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2005.78     Document Type: Article

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