Calculation of Expected Error of Localization by Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Network

Author

Sabaghian-Bidgoli, Hosein ; Fathy, Mahmood

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Univ. of Kashan, Kashan

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Localization by connectivity in wireless sensor networks is an approach that does not impose any additional hardware to sensor nodes and it only uses connectivity information. In this approach localization is erroneous. In this paper we propose a formula to estimate average of error in localization of random sensor network. The work is started with a view on localization in regular distributed network. Obtained formula will be generalized for randomly distributed network using the random density function of connectivity. Proposed formula shows that the error rate is different depending on the network parameters. Simulation results confirm the performance and correctness of the formula.

Keywords

error statistics; random processes; wireless sensor networks; distributed network; error rate; localization error; network connectivity; network parameter; random density function; random sensor network; wireless sensor network; Computer errors; Computer networks; Density functional theory; Electric variables measurement; Hardware; Network topology; Power measurement; Time measurement; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.830

Filename

4678738