A study of localization metrics: Evaluation of position errors in wireless sensor networks

Computer Networks

Volumn 55, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3562-3577

  Aksu, Hidayet ^a   Aksoy, Demet ^a   Korpeoglu, Ibrahim ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Localization; Relative accuracy; Topology similarity; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; ERROR METRICES; ERROR METRICS; ERROR PERFORMANCE; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; LOCATION ERRORS; LOCATION INFORMATION; METRIC VALUES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; POSITION ERRORS; RELATIVE ACCURACY; SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STEP-BY-STEP; TYPICAL APPLICATION; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TOPOLOGY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 80052486451     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2011.06.023     Document Type: Article

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