An artificial hummingbird algorithm based localization with reduced number of reference nodes for wireless sensor networks

Soumya J. Bhat, K. V. Santhosh

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are widely used in recent years due to the advancements in wireless and sensor technologies. Many of these applications require to know the location information of nodes. This information is useful to understand the collected data and to act on them. Existing localization algorithms make use of a few reference nodes for estimating the locations of sensor nodes. But, the positioning and utilization of reference nodes increase the cost and complexity of the network. To reduce the dependency on reference nodes, in this paper, we have developed a novel optimization based localization method using only two reference nodes for the localization of the entire network. This is achieved by reference nodes identifying a few more nodes as reference nodes by the analysis of the connectivity information. The sensor nodes then use the reference nodes to identify their locations in a distributive manner using Artificial Hummingbird Algorithm (AHA). We have observed that the localization performance of the reported algorithm at a lower reference node ratio is comparable with other algorithms at higher reference node ratios.

Original languageEnglish
Article number101921
JournalPhysical Communication
Volume55
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12-2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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