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On localization in sensor network with inaccurate and incomplete distance measurements

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The sensor network localization problem has received a lot of attention in recent years because many important applications resort to node position information. In contrast to the many interesting algorithms proposed in the literature, this paper provides a relatively stratightforward procedure that can tackle localization problem for sensor network in a Least Squares Euclidean Distance Matrix Approximation (LS-EDMA) framework. Simulation results reveal that our proposed algorithm is more robust than another popular Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) and Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) based localization techniques, especially with inaccurate and incomplete distance measurements.

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  1. School of Commun. and Info. Eng., Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Tech. of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    Sun Guolin (male, Ph.D.candidate), Wang Yi & Guo Wei

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Sun, G., Wang, Y. & Guo, W. On localization in sensor network with inaccurate and incomplete distance measurements. J. of Electron.(China) 24, 60–63 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11767-005-0116-8

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