Cooperative Location-Sensing for Wireless Networks

  • Authors:
  • Charalampos Fretzagias;Maria Papadopouli

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present the Cooperative Location-sensing system(CLS), an adaptive location-sensing system that enables devicesto estimate their position in a self-organizing mannerwithout the need for an extensive infrastructure or training.Hosts cooperate and share positioning information.CLS uses a grid representation that allows an easy incorporationof external information to improve the accuracy ofthe position estimation. We evaluated the performance ofCLS via simulation and investigated the impact of the densityof landmarks, degree of connectivity, range error, andgrid resolution on the accuracy. We found that the averageerror is less than 2% of the transmission range,when used in a terrain with 20% of the hosts to be landmarks,average network connectivity above 7, and distanceestimation error equal to 5% of the transmissionrange.