International Conference on Nanoelectronics, Communications and Renewable Energy (ICNCRE’13)

Jijel, September 22 – 23 , Algeria

Localization in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

Sihem SOUIKI, Mourad HADJILA , Mohamed FEHAM *
(*) Abou Bekr Belkaid University , Tlemcen

Localization issue in Large-scale Wireless sensor

A wireless sensor network (WSN) in its
simplest form can be defined as a network networks
of (possibly low-size and low-complex)
A Large Scale Wireless Sensors Constraints
devices denoted as nodes that can sense
Network (LS-WSN) based on the large  The presence of obstacles can block the line-of-sight from GPS satellites.
the environment and communicate the
amount of nodes have become a hot
information gathered from the monitored
topic. "Large scale" refers primarily to The high cost of GPS in large scale WSN is an important problem.
field through wireless links; the data is
a large area or high-density of
forwarded, possibly via multiple hops The power consumption of GPS will reduce the battery life of the sensor
network. Therefore, the design goal of
relaying, to a sink that can use it locally, or is nodes.
WSN must adapt well to extend the
connected to other networks (e.g., the
network range and density of nodes
Internet) through a gateway.
increases.
• The nodes can be stationary or moving.
• They can be aware of their location or not.
• They can be homogeneous or not

Visualization results
Simulation results
Postscript output of scenario I Postscript output of scenario II

Average number of neighbors per node. Real and Estimated

Scenario I
Number of. Localization algorithms Topology type

Nodes Anchors Holes Dist Pos

4000 28 3 Sum-dist lateration 2D Random

Scenario II
Number of. Localization algorithms Topology type
Estimated

Nodes Anchors Holes Dist Pos

4000 28 4 Sum-dist lateration 2D Uniform

Real