Location service design and simulation in ad hoc wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 208-214

  Santucci, Fortunato ^a   Graziosi, Fabio ^a   Tennina, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ad hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSNs); Platform Based Design (PBD); positioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649106663     PISSN: 17442869     EISSN: 17442850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijmndi.2006.012090     Document Type: Article

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14. In our simulation scenario, we adopt a parametric distance measure. For example, it can be considered that 1 du is equal to 10 m. If this assumption is adopted, we can imagine to simulate a network of standard MICAII nodes setting the node’s transmission range to 3 du = 30 m.