Volume 14, Number 3

Probabilistic based Optimal Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks

  Authors

Souparnika Jadhav and Nagesh K. N, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, India

  Abstract

Localization is one of the most important technologies for many applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Node localization is the process of discovering the exact location of the node. If the number of nodes and network size increase, it becomes very arduous to localize the nodes whose result leads to complexity and path loss. In this paper, we proposed an approach called probabilistic based optimal node localization to obtain the location of node in the WSNs. This approach provides an enhanced channel pathloss model by capturing the features of the additive noise in WSN. In addition, the complexity has been minimized by discovering a lower bound of the non-convex function. The problem of non-convex optimization and subsequent nonlinear is solved with the help of relaxation to achieve a sub-optimal solution. Simulation results show that our proposed localization approach has got better performance for considered scenario settings.

  Keywords

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Sensor Nodes (SNs), Node localization, Anchor Nodes (ANs), RootMean-Square Error (RMSE).