[ACM Press the 1st ACM international workshop - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2002.09.28-2002.09.28)] Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications - WSNA '02 - A directionality based location discovery scheme for wireless sensor networks

✍ Scribed by Nasipuri, Asis; Li, Kai

• Book ID: 121209261
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 296 KB
• Edition: 2002
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781581135893
• DOI: 10.1145/570738.570754

✦ Synopsis

A sensor network is a large ad hoc network of densely distributed sensors that are equipped with low power wireless transceivers. Such networks can be applied for cooperative signal detection, monitoring, and tracking, and are especially useful for applications in remote or hazardous locations. This paper addresses the problem of location discovery at the sensor nodes, which is one of the central design challenges in sensor networks. We present a new method by which a sensor node can determine its location by listening to wireless transmissions from three or more fixed beacon nodes. The proposed method is based on an angle-of-arrival estimation technique that does not increase the complexity or cost of construction of the sensor nodes. We present the performance of the proposed method obtained from computer simulations.