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Design and evaluation of a new localization scheme for underwater acoustic sensor networks

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Cheng LiAuthors Info & Claims

GLOBECOM'09: Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications

Pages 5043 - 5047

Published: 30 November 2009 Publication History

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Underwater acoustic sensor networks are quite different from terrestrial wireless sensor networks. Localization for underwater applications is different due to the bandwidth limited acoustic communication, sparsely distributed network deployment, and more expensive and powerful sensor nodes. In this paper, we propose a new scheme to achieve better localization accuracy for underwater acoustic sensor networks. Instead of using the commonly adopted circle-based event detection and least squares algorithm based location estimation, the proposed scheme utilizes the hyperbola-based approach for event localization and a normal distribution for estimation error modeling and calibration. Our analysis and simulation results indicate that the performance of the proposed scheme is clearly better than those from the least squares location estimation based localization schemes.

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GLOBECOM'09: Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications

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Nowsheen NKarmakar GKamruzzaman J(2016)PRADDJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2015.11.02175:C(385-397)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2016
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