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Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks Using NS2

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Wireless sensor network has enormous number of sensors spread over a geographic zone. Each mote in WSN has the ability to communicate with other motes and can process the data in limited capacity. Localization is a technique in which we estimate the location of sensor nodes. In wireless sensor network, nodes locations are not fixed. So to track the target, many solutions come to the mind like GPS, RFID, Bluetooth, Multilateration and Trilateration. In this paper, we use a simple algorithm which reduces the energy usage by minimizing the communication overhead and track the target efficiently.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (NUST), National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Umair Shafiq Khan, Nazar A. Saqib & Muazzam A. Khan

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    Atulya K. Nagar

  3. Sabar Institute of Technology, Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India

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Khan, U.S., Saqib, N.A., Khan, M.A. (2018). Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks Using NS2. In: Yang, XS., Nagar, A., Joshi, A. (eds) Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6916-1_3

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