English
Related papers

Related papers: Non-line-of-sight Node Localization based on Semi-…

200 papers

In the recent years, there has been a huge advancement in wireless sensor computing technology. Today, wireless sensor network (WSN) has become a key technology for different types of smart environment. Nodes localization in WSN has arisen…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Biljana Risteska Stojkoska

Existing deep neural network (DNN) based wireless localization approaches typically do not capture uncertainty inherent in their estimates. In this work, we propose and evaluate variational and scalable DNN approaches to measure the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Artan Salihu , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

Accurate indoor node localization is critical for practical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, as Global Positioning System (GPS) fails to provide reliable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in most indoor environments. Real-world…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

The challenging problem of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) localization is critical for many wireless networking applications. The lack of available datasets has made NLOS localization difficult to tackle with ML-driven methods, but recent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rafayel Darbinyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Rafayel Mkrtchyan , Theofanis P. Raptis

Location is one of the basic information required for underwater optical wireless sensor networks (UOWSNs) for different purposes such as relating the sensing measurements with precise sensor positions, enabling efficient geographic routing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-24 Nasir Saeed , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper presents a framework for the real-time initialization of unknown Ultra-Wideband (UWB) anchors in UWB-aided navigation systems. The method is designed for localization solutions where UWB modules act as supplementary sensors. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Giulio Delama , Igor Borowski , Roland Jung , Stephan Weiss

Accurate outdoor localization in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) environments remains a critical challenge for wireless communication and sensing systems. Existing methods, including positioning based on the Global Navigation Satellite System…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Jiajie Xu , Yifan Guo , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Tingting Yang

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology has seen an increased penetration in the robotics field as a robust localization method in recent years. UWB enables high accuracy distance estimation from time-of-flight measurements of wireless…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Carmen Martínez Almansa , Wang Shule , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Despite their high accuracy, UWB-based localization systems suffer inaccuracies when deployed in industrial locations with many obstacles due to multipath effects and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. In such environments, current error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Dieter Coppens , Adnan Shahid , Eli De Poorter

The vivid success of the emerging wireless sensor technology (WSN) gave rise to the notion of localization in the communications field. Indeed, the interest in localization grew further with the proliferation of the wireless sensor network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-23 Hadeel Elayan , Raed Shubair

We propose a localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks, which is simple in design, does not involve significant overhead and yet provides acceptable position estimates of sensor nodes. The algorithm uses settled nodes as beacon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz , Saleem Akhtar

Accurate location information is essential for many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. A location-aware WSN generally includes two types of nodes: sensors whose locations to be determined and anchors whose locations are known a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Liang Heng , Grace Xingxin Gao

A Semidefinite Programming (SDP) relaxation is an effective computational method to solve a Sensor Network Localization problem, which attempts to determine the locations of a group of sensors given the distances between some of them [11].…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Davood Shamsi , Nicole Taheri , Zhisu Zhu , Yinyu Ye

Location information is a fundamental requirement for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, accurately and efficiently localizing sensor nodes with diverse functionalities remains a significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

This paper introduces an identification method that determines whether a millimeter-wave wireless transmission using directional antennas is being established over a line-of-sight (LOS) or a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cluster for indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Pengfei Lyu , Aziz Benlarbi-Delaï , Zhuoxiang Ren , Julien Sarrazin

Given that the accuracy of range-based positioning techniques generally increases with the number of available anchor nodes, it is important to secure more of these nodes. To this end, this paper studies an unsupervised learning technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Jeongsik Choi , Yang-Seok Choi , Shilpa Talwar

Nowadays, accurate localization plays an essential role in many fields, like target tracking and path planning. The challenges of indoor localization include inadequate localization accuracy, unreasonable anchor deployment in complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Fengyun Zhang , Li Yang , Yuhuan Liu , Yulong Ding , Shuang-Hua Yang , Hao Li

A new method for estimating the relative positions of location-unaware nodes from the location-aware nodes and the received signal strength (RSS) between the nodes, in a wireless sensor network (WSN), is proposed. In the method, a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-11 R. C. Nongpiur

The millimeter-wave (mmWave)-based Wi-Fi sensing technology has recently attracted extensive attention since it provides a possibility to realize higher sensing accuracy. However, current works mainly concentrate on sensing scenarios where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shiwen He , Kangli Cai , Shiyue Huang , Zhenyu Anz , Wei Huang , Ning Gao

A wireless sensor network comprises of small sensor nodes each of which consists of a processing device, small amount of memory, battery and radio transceiver for communication. The sensor nodes are autonomous and spatially distributed in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz