TY - JOUR
T1 - A survey on mobility-assisted localization techniques in wireless sensor networks
AU - Halder, Subir
AU - Ghosal, Amrita
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/1
Y1 - 2016/1
N2 - Identifying locations of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is significant for both network operations and most application level tasks. Although geographical positioning system (GPS) based localization schemes are used for determining node locations but the cost of GPS devices and non-availability of GPS signals in indoor environments prevent their use in large scale WSNs. A substantial amount of research work exist that intend at obtaining precise and relative spatial locations of sensor nodes without requiring large amount of specialized hardware. Mobility-assisted localization is one typical approach that significantly reduces the implementation cost by using limited number of mobile anchors. In this survey, we present key issues and inherent challenges faced by the mobility-assisted localization techniques in WSNs. We take a closer look at the algorithmic approaches of various important fine-grained mobility-assisted localization techniques applicable in WSNs. In addition, we highlight the error refinement mechanisms adopted by the state-of-the-art works associated with their approaches. Well known mobile anchor trajectories presented in existing works are also reviewed. Finally, open research issues are discussed for future research scope in this field.
AB - Identifying locations of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is significant for both network operations and most application level tasks. Although geographical positioning system (GPS) based localization schemes are used for determining node locations but the cost of GPS devices and non-availability of GPS signals in indoor environments prevent their use in large scale WSNs. A substantial amount of research work exist that intend at obtaining precise and relative spatial locations of sensor nodes without requiring large amount of specialized hardware. Mobility-assisted localization is one typical approach that significantly reduces the implementation cost by using limited number of mobile anchors. In this survey, we present key issues and inherent challenges faced by the mobility-assisted localization techniques in WSNs. We take a closer look at the algorithmic approaches of various important fine-grained mobility-assisted localization techniques applicable in WSNs. In addition, we highlight the error refinement mechanisms adopted by the state-of-the-art works associated with their approaches. Well known mobile anchor trajectories presented in existing works are also reviewed. Finally, open research issues are discussed for future research scope in this field.
KW - Mobile anchor
KW - Mobile anchor trajectory
KW - Range measurement
KW - Sensor node localization
KW - Wireless sensor network
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnca.2015.11.019
DO - 10.1016/j.jnca.2015.11.019
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84951299862
SN - 1084-8045
VL - 60
SP - 82
EP - 94
JO - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
JF - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
ER -