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Analysis and Comparison of Localization Approaches in WSN: A Review

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Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is made up of huge no. of sensing nodes those are known as sensor nodes. In WSN Localization for the unknown nodes, is significant task. Various techniques are available to solve this problem. Two main categories are rough and excellent. Rough categories require less detail to determine the position of unknown node, easy to implement and less complex and the excellent technique require more detail to determine the position and provide the accuracy about position of the node. In this review paper we are presenting the analysis of various localization algorithms and providing the comparison of performances and approaches.

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Kaur, B., Prashar, D. (2019). Analysis and Comparison of Localization Approaches in WSN: A Review. In: Luhach, A., Singh, D., Hsiung, PA., Hawari, K., Lingras, P., Singh, P. (eds) Advanced Informatics for Computing Research. ICAICR 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 956. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3143-5_25

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