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We study a mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) consisting of multiple mobile sensors or robots. Three key factors in MWSNs, sensing quality, energy consumption, and connectivity, have attracted plenty of attention, but the interaction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

This paper studies the possibility of upper bounding the position error of an estimate for range based positioning algorithms in wireless sensor networks. In this study, we argue that in certain situations when the measured distances…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Erik G. Ström , Henk Wymeersch , Mats Rydström

Wireless sensor networks require accurate target localization, often achieved through received signal strength (RSS) localization estimation based on maximum likelihood (ML). However, ML-based algorithms can suffer from issues such as low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weizhong Ding , Shengming Chang , Shudi Bao , Meng Chen , Jie Sun

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently gained a lot of attention by scientific community. Small and inexpensive devices with low energy consumption and limited computing resources are increasingly being adopted in different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Asma Mesmoudi , Mohammed Feham , Nabila Labraoui

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. Numerous studies have proposed accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weizhong Ding , Shengming Chang , Shudi Bao

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) shows great promise in leveraging spatial degrees of freedom to enhance the performance of wireless systems. However, resource allocation in MA-aided systems faces challenges due to the nonconvex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Yichen Jin , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Hancheng Zhu , Bingyang Cheng , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

In this paper we describe three methods for localizing a wireless sensor network node, using anchor nodes in its neighbourhood, when there is an error in distance estimation present. We use the intersection points of the circles formed with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Marios Karagiannis , Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Jose Rolim

Localization of mobile nodes in a wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an active area of research. In this paper, we present a novel RSSI based localization algorithm for 802.15.4 (ZigBee) based WSNs. We propose and implement a novel range…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Usman Nazir

Many localization algorithms and systems have been developed by means of wireless sensor networks for both indoor and outdoor environments. To achieve higher localization accuracy, extra hardware equipments are utilized by most of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia , Cheng Jin , Liang Li

Received signal strength (RSS)-based wireless localization is easy to implement at low cost. In practice,exact positions of anchors may not be available. This paper focuses on determining the location of a source in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Yang Liu , Guojun Han , Yonghua Wang , Zheng Xue , Jing Chen

We consider the problem of self-localization by a resource-constrained node within a network given radio signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements from a set of anchor nodes where the RSSI measurements as well as the anchor position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Vikram Kumar , Reza Arablouei , Brano Kusy , Raja Jurdak , Neil W. Bergmann

The integration of cooperative and non-cooperative localization is fundamentally important, as these two modes frequently coexist in wireless sensor networks, especially when sensor positions are uncertain and targets are unable to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Qiaojia Zhu , Xiaojing Shen , Haiqi Liu , Pramod K. Varshney

A reliable, accurate, and affordable positioning service is highly required in wireless networks. In this paper, the novel Message Passing Hybrid Localization (MPHL) algorithm is proposed to solve the problem of cooperative distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hassan Naseri , Visa Koivunen

Localization is a fundamental challenge for any wireless network of nodes, in particular when the nodes are mobile. We present an extension of the classical Multidimensional scaling (MDS) for an anchorless network of mobile nodes, wherein…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-15 Raj Thilak Rajan , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

In this paper, a novel cooperation-aided localization and tracking approach, suitable for terahertz (THz) wireless systems is presented. It combines an angle of arrival (AoA) tracking algorithm with the two-way time of arrival method, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-21 Giorgos Stratidakis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Angeliki Alexiou

This paper considers node localization in static sensor networks using range-only measurements. Similar to state- of-the-art algorithms, such as ECHO and DILOC, we rely on barycentric coordinates of the nodes to transform the non-convex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 P. P. V. Tecchio , N. Atanasov , G. J. Pappas

In this paper, we develop a \textit{distributed} algorithm to localize an arbitrary number of agents moving in a bounded region of interest. We assume that the network contains \textit{at least one} agent with known location (hereinafter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Sam Safavi , Usman A. Khan

We study the problem of high accuracy localization of mobile nodes in a multipath-rich environment where sub-meter accuracies are required. We employ a peer-to-peer framework where the vehicles/nodes can get pairwise multipath-degraded…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Venkatesan. N. Ekambaram , Kannan Ramchandran , Raja Sengupta

Distributed cooperative localization in wireless networks is a challenging problem since it typically requires solving a large-scale nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problem. In this paper, we reformulate the classic cooperative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Mei Zhang , Zhiguo Wang , Feng Yin , Xiaojing Shen

The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Pouya Mollaebrahim Ghari , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi