Design and evaluation of a new localization scheme for underwater acoustic sensor networks

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bian, Tao ^a   Venkatesan, R ^a   Li, Cheng ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Localization; Localization error analysis; Time synchronization; Underwater sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; ANALYSIS TIME; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; EVENT DETECTION; LEAST SQUARE; LEAST SQUARES ALGORITHM; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCALIZATION SCHEMES; LOCATION ESTIMATION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS; UNDERWATER APPLICATION; UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; ESTIMATION; MICROSENSORS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77951526151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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