Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks by Mobile Anchor Positioning with a Voting Heuristic

• Ing. José Ignacio Cruz Moreira

• English

• heuristic method
• localization
• mobile anchor positioning
• wireless sensor network

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), many problems call for the network nodes to be aware of their positions. This makes localization a key and challenging task in WSNs. The scientific literature on this topic distinguishes two major types of solution approaches: range-based versus range-free methods, depending on whether the sensor nodes make use of the range –signal features– of the messages between nodes to estimate their own location. In this work, we propose a heuristic mechanism to improve ...