Aggressive Rectangle Truncation Localization with Verification Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Localization plays a critical role in sensor based systems. Sensors that are location aware broaden the types of sensor applications. This paper proposes an aggressive rectangle truncation (ART) localization algorithm for locating objects in a fading radio signal environment. The paper further presents a location verification mechanism to increase the accuracy and consistency of the estimated object location. Finally, we conduct real-world experiments to show that the ART algorithm implemented on Mica2 motes outstands the general triangulation algorithm.