Horizontal and Vertical Zone Based Location Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Localization is an important feature in Wireless sensor networks (WSNs i) Horizontal Location Position System (H-LPS), where cluster is divided into Horizontal Zones (HZs) and beacon nodes locate in horizontal direction and (ii) Vertical Location Position System (V-LPS), where cluster is divided into Vertical Zones (VZs) and beacon nodes locate in vertical direction. The main advantage of zone based localization is nodes belonging to a bounded zone (horizontal or vertical) are localized and participate in WSN computing. If a bounded zone is eliminated during localization, then nodes do not participate in localization and thus save WSN computing. We provide zone based simulations for H-LPS and V-LPS in comparison with existing localization algorithms like Ad hoc Positioning System (APS), Recursive Positioning Estimation (RPE) and Directed Positioning Estimation (DPE). Performance evaluation of H-LPS and V-LPS illustrate that for zone based localization, H-LPS and V-LPS perform better that existing localization techniques. Bounded zone performance is optimal for H-LPS and V-LPS compared to existing localization techniques in WSN.