A review on localization in wireless sensor networks

J Kuriakose, S Joshi, R Vikram Raju… - Advances in signal …, 2014 - Springer
Localization is extensively used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to identify the current
location of the sensor nodes. A WSN consist of thousands of nodes that make the installation …

Sift: A MAC protocol for event-driven wireless sensor networks

K Jamieson, H Balakrishnan, YC Tay - European workshop on wireless …, 2006 - Springer
Nodes in sensor networks often encounter spatially-correlated contention, where multiple
nodes in the same neighborhood all sense an event they need to transmit information about …

A practical evaluation of radio signal strength for ranging-based localization

K Whitehouse, C Karlof, D Culler - ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Radio signal strength (RSS) is notorious for being a noisy signal that is difficult to use for
ranging-based localization. In this study, we demonstrate that RSS can be used to localize a …

Path planning of mobile landmarks for localization in wireless sensor networks

D Koutsonikolas, SM Das, YC Hu - Computer Communications, 2007 - Elsevier
Many applications of wireless sensor networks require the sensor nodes to obtain their
locations. The main idea in most localization methods has been that some statically …

Incremental learning with support vector machines

S Ru** - Proceedings 2001 IEEE international conference on …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Support vector machines (SVMs) have become a popular tool for machine learning with
large amounts of high dimensional data. In this paper an approach for incremental learning …

Path loss exponent estimation for wireless sensor network localization

G Mao, BDO Anderson, B Fidan - Computer Networks, 2007 - Elsevier
The wireless received signal strength (RSS) based localization techniques have attracted
significant research interest for their simplicity. The RSS based localization techniques can …

An empirical characterization of radio signal strength variability in 3-D IEEE 802.15. 4 networks using monopole antennas

D Lymberopoulos, Q Lindsey, A Savvides - Wireless Sensor Networks …, 2006 - Springer
The wide availability of radio signal strength attenuation information on wireless radios has
received considerable attention as a convenient means of deriving positioning information …

A high-accuracy, low-cost localization system for wireless sensor networks

R Stoleru, T He, JA Stankovic, D Luebke - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
The problem of localization of wireless sensor nodes has long been regarded as very
difficult to solve, when considering the realities of real world environments. In this paper, we …

The effects of ranging noise on multihop localization: an empirical study

K Whitehouse, C Karlof, A Woo… - IPSN 2005. Fourth …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a study of how empirical ranging characteristics affect multihop
localization in wireless sensor networks. We use an objective metric to evaluate a well …

Wireless sensor network localization based on cuckoo search algorithm

S Goyal, MS Patterh - Wireless personal communications, 2014 - Springer
Many applications of wireless sensor networks (WSN) require information about the
geographical location of each sensor node. Devices that form WSN are expected to be …