An Area Localization Scheme for Large Scale Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

作者：Zhou, Yi; He, Jianhua; Chen, Kai^*; Chen, Jianbo; Liang, Alei

来源：WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, Kunming, PEOPLES R CHINA, 2009-01-06 To 2009-01-08.

DOI：10.1109/CMC.2009.371

• Limited bandwidth
• Localization problems
• Localization schemes
• Location accuracy
• Low costs
• Underwater environments
• Underwater localization
• Underwater wireless sensor networks

In this paper, we study an area localization problem in large scale Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs). The limited bandwidth, the severely impaired channel and the cost of underwater equipment all makes the underwater localization problem very challenging. Exact localization is very difficult for UWSNs in deep underwater environment. We propose a Mobile DETs based efficient 3D multi-power Area Localization Scheme (3D-MALS) to address the challenging problem. In the proposed scheme, the ideas of 2D multi-power Area Localization Scheme(2D-ALS) [6] and utilizing Detachable Elevator Transceiver (DET) are used to achieve the simplicity, location accuracy, scalability and low cost performances. The DET can rise and down to broadcast its position. And it is assumed that all the underwater nodes underwater have pressure sensors and know their z coordinates. The simulation results show that our proposed scheme is very efficient.

• 出版日期2009
• 单位上海交通大学