Title: Beacon moving location algorithm in WSN

Authors: Keji Mao; Qike Shao; Wenxiu He; Rong Chen; Qingzhang Chen

Addresses: College of Computer, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China ' College of Computer, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China ' College of Information, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China ' College of Computer, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China ' College of Computer, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China

Abstract: Location is one of the key technologies in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). A lot of location algorithms assume that beacon nodes are fixed, but in most practical applications, the locations of some beacons will be changed after deployment, which leads to other unknown nodes rely on these beacons cannot be accurately located. In this paper we proposed an Area Division-based Beacon Movement Detection Algorithm (AD-BMD) to solve the location problems with beacons movement, through two judgement processes to determine which beacon have moved, and set a coordinate confidence value for each beacon. We also proposed a Beacon Movement Detection based Beacon Optimal Selection Location Algorithm (BMD-BOS) to use moving and unmoving beacons more reasonably, by selecting beacons reasonably to calculate the position of unknown nodes. Experimental results show that AD-BMD has high-correct rate and low-error rate. Compared with LB and SSV, AD-BMD has better performance. The location accuracy of BMD-BOS is much higher than N-BMDs and D-BMDs.

Keywords: WSNs; wireless sensor networks; node location; beacon movement detection; AD-BMD; BMD-BOS; beacon movement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2013.056598

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2013 Vol.14 No.2, pp.82 - 91

Published online: 29 Sep 2013 *

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