Localization Algorithms of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

Han, Guangjie; Jiang, Jinfang; Shu, Lei; Xu, Yongjun; Wang, Feng

doi:10.3390/s120202026

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“…Recently, numerous localization algorithms have been put forward, and some researchers have done some survey of the localization algorithms [11][12][13][14].We discuss the localization algorithms in UWSNs in the following five aspects, namely computation algorithm, anchor requirement, range measurement, synchronization requirement, and communication between nodes. We only discuss the difference in each aspect and use some references to describe it.…”

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Two-Phase Time Synchronization-Free Localization Algorithm for Underwater Sensor Networks

Luo

Fan

2017

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Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) can enable a broad range of applications such as resource monitoring, disaster prevention, and navigation-assisted. It is especially relevant for sensor nodes location in UWSNs. Global Positioning System (GPS) is not suitable for using in UWSNs because of the underwater propagation problems. Hence some localization algorithms based on the precise time synchronization between sensor nodes have been proposed which are not feasible for UWSNs. In this paper, we propose a localization algorithm called Two-Phase Time Synchronization-Free Localization Algorithm (TP-TSFLA). TP-TSFLA contains two phases, namely, range-based estimation phase and range-free evaluation phase. In the first phase, we address a time synchronization-free localization scheme base on the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to decrease the localization error. In the second phase, we propose a Circle-based Range-Free Localization Algorithm (CRFLA) to locate the unlocalized sensor nodes which cannot obtain the location information through the first phase. In the second phase, sensor nodes which are localized in the first phase act as the new anchor nodes to help realize localization. Hence in this algorithm, we use a small number of mobile beacons to help achieve location without any other anchor nodes. Besides, to improve the precision of the range-free method, an extension of CRFLA by designing a coordinate adjustment scheme is updated. The simulation results show that TP-TSFLA can achieve a relative high localization ratio without time synchronization.

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Two-Phase Time Synchronization-Free Localization Algorithm for Underwater Sensor Networks

Luo

Fan

2017

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“…Localization is one of the fundamental tasks in designing 3D wireless networks and generally requires several anchor nodes and distance or angle measurements between these anchors and the unknown nodes [49]. Localization can be used in many tasks of 3D wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, such as event detecting, target tracking, environmental monitoring, identifying raw sensing data, and network deployment [17].…”

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A Survey on Three-Dimensional Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Shah

Kim

2014

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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In parallel with steady research and development in ad hoc and wireless sensor networks, many testbeds have been implemented and deployed in real world. Furthermore, some research works have addressed design issues for deployment in three-dimensional space such as sky or ocean. Since many research challenges in three-dimensional spaces have not been explored yet as much as two dimensional spaces, it is required to define the challenging tasks to provide reliable communication in three-dimensional space. In this survey, we aim to identify the unique properties of communication environments in three-dimensional space and address the overview of the state of the art in this research area. To achieve this, the survey is organized according to two good example networks, airborne ad hoc networks (AANETs) and underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). For each network, we introduce and review the related research works to focus on infrastructure, localization, topology design, and position-based routing. Finally, open research issues are also discussed and presented.

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“…1 It is assumed that the surface anchors are equipped with GPS devices, as well as radio (or satellite) and acoustic modems. In addition, the information about the positions of the anchors can be collected by a fusion center through their radio modems.…”

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“…This triggered a lot of research on underwater localization (see e.g. [1] and [2] and references therein). However, in spite of these recently published articles on UASN localization, little work has been done on medium access control (MAC) protocol design for localization.…”

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L-MAC: Localization packet scheduling for an underwater acoustic sensor network

Ramezani

Leus

2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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Abstract-This article concerns the problem of scheduling the localization packets of the anchors in an underwater acoustic sensor network (UASN). Knowing the relative positions of the anchors and their maximum transmission range, we take advantage of the long propagation delay of underwater communication to minimize the duration of the localization task. First, we formulate the concept of collision-free packet transmission for localization, and we show how the optimum solution can be obtained. Furthermore, we propose two low-complexity algorithms, and through comprehensive simulations we compare their performances with the optimal solution as well as other existing methods. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms perform near optimum and better than alternative solutions.

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Localization Algorithms of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

Cited by 188 publications

References 66 publications

Two-Phase Time Synchronization-Free Localization Algorithm for Underwater Sensor Networks

Two-Phase Time Synchronization-Free Localization Algorithm for Underwater Sensor Networks

A Survey on Three-Dimensional Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

L-MAC: Localization packet scheduling for an underwater acoustic sensor network

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