Sequential Localization of Sensor Networks

  • Authors:
  • J. Fang;M. Cao;A. S. Morse;B. D. O. Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • jia.fang@yale.edu and as.morse@yale.edu;m.cao@rug.nl;-;Brian.Anderson@nicta.com.au

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The sensor network localization problem with distance information is to determine the positions of all sensors in a network, given the positions of some of the sensors and the distances between some pairs of sensors. A definition is given for a sensor network in the plane to be “sequentially localizable.” It is shown that the graph of a sequentially localizable network must have a “bilateration ordering,” and a polynomial time algorithm is given for deciding whether or not a network's graph has such an ordering. A provably correct algorithm is given which consists of solving a sequence of quadratic equations, and it is shown that the algorithm can localize any localizable network in the plane whose graph has a bilateration ordering.