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Many applications have been identified which require the deployment of large-scale low-power wireless sensor networks. Some of the deployment environments, however, impose harsh operation conditions due to intense cross-technology…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Abiy Tasissa , Waltenegus Dargie

We investigate a wireless network localization scenario in which the need for synchronized nodes is avoided. It consists of a set of fixed anchor nodes transmitting according to a given sequence and a self-localizing receiver node. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-24 Dave Zachariah , Alessio De Angelis , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel

The accuracy of indoor wireless localization systems can be substantially enhanced by map-awareness, i.e., by the knowledge of the map of the environment in which localization signals are acquired. In fact, this knowledge can be exploited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

We consider a sensor network focused on target localization, where sensors measure the signal strength emitted from the target. Each measurement is quantized to one bit and sent to the fusion center. A general attack is considered at some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jiangfan Zhang , Xiaodong Wang , Rick S. Blum , Lance M. Kaplan

This work estimates the position and the transmit power of multiple co-channel wireless transmitters under model uncertainties. The model uncertainties include the number of the targets and the parameters of the path-loss model which enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Ehsan Zandi , Rudolf Mathar

Localization is widely used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to identify the current location of the sensor odes. A WSN consist of thousands of nodes that make the installation of GPS on each sensor node expensive and moreover GPS may not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Jeril Kuriakose , Sandeep Joshi , V. I. George

We study the important problem of tracking moving targets in wireless sensor networks. We try to overcome the limitations of standard state of the art tracking methods based on continuous location tracking, i.e. the high energy dissipation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-03-17 Andrei Marculescu , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Olivier Powell , Jose Rolim

We consider the problem where a network of sensors has to detect the presence of targets at any of $n$ possible locations in a finite region. All such locations may not be occupied by a target. The data from sensors is fused to determine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 B. Santhana Krishnan , Animesh Kumar , D. Manjunath , Bikash K. Dey

When fully implemented, sixth generation (6G) wireless systems will constitute intelligent wireless networks that enable not only ubiquitous communication but also high-accuracy localization services. They will be the driving force behind…

In this paper, a cooperative localization algorithm is proposed that considers the existence of obstacles in mobilityassisted wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this scheme, a mobile anchor (MA) node cooperates with static sensor nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Pei Huang , H. Vincent Poor , Kaoru Sezaki

Because each indoor site has its own radio propagation characteristics, a site survey process is essential to optimize a Wi-Fi ranging strategy for range-based positioning solutions. This paper studies an unsupervised learning technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jeongsik Choi

We consider a wireless source localization network in which a target node emits localization signals that are used by anchor nodes to estimate the target node position. In addition to target and anchor nodes, there can also exist…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Cuneyd Ozturk , Sinan Gezici

We study the problem of sensor placement in environments in which localization is a necessity, such as ad-hoc wireless sensor networks that allow the placement of a few anchors that know their location or sensor arrays that are tracking a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Ioana O. Bercea , Volkan Isler , Samir Khuller

In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Bauhofer , Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Thorsten Wild , Stephan ten Brink

Characterized by a cross-disciplinary nature, the bearing-based target localization task involves estimating the position of an entity of interest by a group of agents capable of collecting noisy bearing measurements. In this work, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Beniamino Pozzan , Giulia Michieletto , Mehran Mesbahi , Angelo Cenedese

As the world becomes more and more interconnected, our everyday objects become part of the Internet of Things, and our lives get more and more mirrored in virtual reality, where every piece of~information, including misinformation, fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Robert Paluch , Łukasz G. Gajewski , Janusz A. Hołyst , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

We address the problem of localising a mobile terminal ("blind" node) in unknown position from a set of "anchor" nodes in known positions. The proposed method does not require any form of node synchronisation nor measurement (or control) of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Nicolo' Facchi , Francesco Gringoli , Fabio Ricciato , Andrea Toma

This paper addresses the problem of bearing-based network localization, which aims to localize all the nodes in a static network given the locations of a subset of nodes termed anchors and inter-node bearings measured in a common reference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Shiyu Zhao , Daniel Zelazo

In this work, we consider the task of target localization using quantized data in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We propose an energy efficient localization scheme by modeling it as an iterative classification problem. We design coding…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-18 Aditya Vempaty , Yunghsiang S. Han , Pramod K. Varshney

Wireless Sensor Network WSN is consisted of nodes with different sizes and a specific goal. Tracking applications are very important in WSNs. This study proposes a method for reducing energy consumption in WSNs, considering target tracking.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Amir Javadpour