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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTC.2009.16C.5.615

On the Design of ToA Based RSS Compensation Scheme for Distance Measurement in WSNs  

Han, Hyeun-Jin (연합사 통신전자참모부 전산운영실)
Kwon, Tae-Wook (국방대학교 전산정보학과)
Abstract
Nowadays, wireless infrastructures such as sensor networks are widely used in many different areas. In case of sensor networks, the wirelessly connected sensors can execute different kind of tasks in a diversity of environments, and one of the most important parameter for a successful execution of such tasks is the location information of each node. As to localization problems in WSNs, there are ToA (Timer of Arrival), RSS (Received Signal Strength), AoA (Angle of Arrival), etc. In this paper, we propose a modification of existing ToA and RSS based methods, adding a weighted average scheme to measure more precisely the distance between nodes. The comparison experiments with the traditional ToA method show that the average error value of proposed method is reduced by 0.1 cm in indoor environment ($5m{\times}7m$) and 0.6cm in outdoor environment ($10{\times}10m$).
Keywords
ToA; RSS; RSSI; AoA; RF-MAP;
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