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Locating sensors in the forest: A case study in GreenOrbs

  • Cheng Bo
  • , Danping Ren
  • , Shaojie Tang
  • , Xiang Yang Li
  • , Xufei Mao
  • , Qiuyuan Huang
  • , Lufeng Mo
  • , Zhiping Jiang
  • , Yongmei Sun
  • , Yunhao Liu
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Tsinghua University
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract

As a large scale real sensor network system, GreenOrbs reveals that locating sensor nodes in the forest still faces great challenges because of volatile and fluctuating environmental factors. In this paper, we present a novel localization scheme, EARL, which provides accurate reference nodes and good ranging quality. We exam the range quality along routing paths by taking complex environmental factors into account, such as forest density, temperature and humidity. To improve localization accuracy, we use power scanning technique to judge the accuracy reference nodes and further calibrate the bad nodes through reverse-localization. To overcome the error propagation, we assign different weights to the range measurement according to the ranging quality. We implemented our localization scheme in GreenOrbs testbed, and evaluate through extensive experiments. The results demonstrate that EARL outperforms the current localization approaches with better accuracy. The localization accuracy achieved by our method is around 20% higher than best existing methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, INFOCOM 2012
Pages1026-1034
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2012 - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Mar 25 2012Mar 30 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period03/25/1203/30/12

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