The insights of localization through mobile anchor nodes in wireless sensor networks with irregular radio

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2992-3007

  Han, Guangjie ^a,b   Xu, Huihui ^a,b   Jiang, Jinfang ^a,b   Shu, Lei ^c   Chilamkurti, Naveen ^d  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Changzhou Key Laboratory of Sensor Networks and Environmental Sensing   (China)

^c GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Degree of irregularity; Localization; Mobile anchor node; WSNs

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR NODES; COMMUNICATION DISTANCE; DEGREE OF IRREGULARITY; HIGH PROBABILITY; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCALIZATION INFORMATION; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; LOCALIZATION SCHEMES; MOBILE ANCHOR NODE; PATH PLANNING PROBLEMS; RADIO RANGE; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS); WSNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84870706790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19767277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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