Mobility-assisted node localization based on TOA measurements without time synchronization in wireless sensor networks

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-99

  Chen, Hongyang ^a   Liu, Bin ^b   Huang, Pei ^c   Liang, Junli ^d   Gu, Yu ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geometrical location; TOA; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; NODE LOCALIZATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; TOA; TOA MEASUREMENT; TRILATERATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84861823060     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-010-0281-3     Document Type: Article

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