Variable elasticity spring-relaxation: Improving the accuracy of localization for WSNs with unknown path loss exponent

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 929-941

  Zhang, Qing ^a   Foh, Chuan Heng ^a   Seet, Boon Chong ^b   Fong, A C M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Error magnification effect; Sensor localization; Unknown path loss exponent; Variable elasticity spring relaxation

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; ERROR MAGNIFICATION; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOCATION INFORMATION; LOW COSTS; PATH LOSS EXPONENT; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RANGING ERRORS; SENSOR LOCALIZATION; TRANSMISSION RANGES; VARIABLE ELASTICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERIMENTS; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 84869106908     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0449-2     Document Type: Article

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