A performance comparison between ROC-RSSI and trilateration localization techniques for WPAN sensor networks in a real outdoor testbed

2009 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cassano, E ^a   Florio, F ^a   De Rango, F ^a   Marano, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Error compensation; Localization; Outdoor; Range based; Range free; WPAN; WSN

Indexed keywords

CLASSIC MODELS; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; NODES LOCALIZATION; OUTDOOR; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PATH LOSS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; RANGE FREE; RANGE-BASED; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATORS; TRILATERATION;

SENSOR NETWORKS; SURVEYING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ERROR COMPENSATION;

EID: 77951492332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WTS.2009.5068988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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