Location awareness has become one of the most popular areas for mobile internet applications. Normally, the method of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) can be used to estimate the position of the unknown nodes. However, when the number of anchor nodes is small within the communication range, the traditional methods cannot work very well. This paper provides a novel location approach to estimate the position by selecting valuable neighbors (both anchor and regular nodes) with Minimized Error Propagation Location method based on Error estimation (MEPLE). The simulation results show that the MEPLE outperforms the MLE overall, especially when the number of anchor nodes is relatively small such as between 10 and 20, MEPLE can reduce 50-80% estimation error on average.
ZHOU Xue-song. Minimized Error Propagation Location Method Based on Error Estimation[J]. Command Control and Simulation, 2018, 40(5): 116-121. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-3819.2018.05.023
每个常规节点的位置估计误差的累积分布函数(CDF)曲线如图8所示。这里,总节点的10%被设置为锚节点。从图中可以看出,采用MEPLE方法,对于80%以上的用户,位置估计误差小于5 m; 而对于MLE,只有60%的用户估算误差低于5 m。 对于MEPLE,最大估计误差为22 m,只有4%的用户误差超过10 m; 对于MLE,20%的用户误差超过10 m,大约10%的用户由于附近缺乏锚节点而无法计算其位置。
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