Fig. 1. Selection of the anchor-centroid pair.
Fig. 2. Division of the LQI sphere by taking each axis’s positive and
Fig. 3. Position of different kind of nodes.
Fig. 4. Error distance ratio.
Fig. 5. Improvement in error distance over the existing system.
Fig. 6. Modified error in terms of distance.
Table 1. Distances of two nodes according to the LQI value
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