A Novel Self Localization Approach for Sensors

Abstract

This paper presents a modification of 3N Time of Arrival (TOA) and a reliable Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) based localization algorithms. TDOA is formulated using the parametric equations of the hyperbolas whose intersections are candidate locations for the nodes to be localized. The TDOA algorithm is guaranteed to find all possible relevant solutions, even when implemented on a computational node with limited capability. Monte- Carlo simulations were used to assess the performance for both algorithms.