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One of the major issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs) is efficient localization. There are various techniques for indoor and outdoor environments to locate a person. This study evaluating and compares performance of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Obaid ur Rehman , Nadeem Javaid , Ayesha Bibi , Zahoor Ali Khan

Many WSN protocols require the location coordinates of the sensor nodes, as it is useful to consider the data collected by the sensors in the context of the location from which they were collected. Thus, one of the major challenges in WSNs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Ashanie Gunathillake

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

In this paper, we propose a range-based localization algorithm to localize a wireless sensor network (WSN) in 2D. A widely used algorithm to localize a WSN in 2D is trilateration, which runs in polynomial time. Trilateration uses three…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Onur Cagirici

This paper proposes a novel low-complexity three-dimensional (3D) localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks, termed quanternion-domain super multi-dimensional scaling (QD-SMDS). The algorithm is based on a reformulation of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Alessio Lukaj , Keigo Masuoka , Takumi Takahashi , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Hideki Ochiai

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

As Wireless Sensor Networks are penetrating into the industrial domain, many research opportunities are emerging. One such essential and challenging application is that of node localization. A feed-forward neural network based methodology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Shiu Kumar , Ronesh Sharma , Edwin Vans

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

We propose a novel low-complexity three-dimensional (3D) localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks, termed quaternion-domain super multidimensional scaling (QD-SMDS). This algorithm reformulates the conventional SMDS, which was…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Keigo Masuoka , Takumi Takahashi , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Hideki Ochiai

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

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

Node localization algorithms that can be easily integrated into deployed wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and which run seamlessly with proprietary lower layer communication protocols running on off-the-shelf modules can help operators of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Pooyan Abouzar , David G. Michelson , Maziyar Hamdi

We study a mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) consisting of multiple mobile sensors or robots. Two key issues in MWSNs - energy consumption, which is dominated by sensor movement, and sensing coverage - have attracted plenty of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

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

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are groups of spatially distributed and dedicated autonomous sensors for monitoring (and recording) the physical conditions of the environment (and organizing the collected data at a central location). They…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Aaron John-Sabu

Locating each node in a wireless sensor network is essential for starting the monitoring job and sending information about the area. One method that has been used in hard and inaccessible environments is randomly scattering each node in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Saeed Ghadiri

With the recent development in mobile computing devices and as the ubiquitous deployment of access points(APs) of Wireless Local Area Networks(WLANs), WLAN based indoor localization systems(WILSs) are of mounting concentration and are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-13 Caifa Zhou , Lin Ma , Xuezhi Tan

The landmark multi-dimensional scaling (LMDS) is a leading method that embeds new points to an existing coordinate system based on observed distance information. It has long been known as a variant of Nystr\"{o}m algorithm. It was recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Ting Ouyang , Lingchen Kong , Houduo Qi

Location knowledge in indoor environment using Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) has become very useful and popular in recent years. Indoor wireless localization suffers from severe multi-path fading and non-line-of-sight conditions. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Gang Wang , Zuxuan Zhang

The discovery of neighbouring nodes in multihop wireless networks has become a key challenge. Due to tribulations in communication, synchronization loss between nodes, disparity in transmission power etc, the connectivity of nodes will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-18 V. Karthikeyan , A. Vinod , P. Jeyakumar