A decentralized location system for sensor networks using cooperative calibration and heuristics

ACM MSWiM 2006 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 139-146

  Reghelin, Ricardo ^a   Fröhlich, Antônio Augusto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Localization algorithms; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED LOCATION SYSTEMS; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33750905927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1164717.1164742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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